Arthur Rimbaud — a remark

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“Free to the new ones to hate their ancestors: one is at home and has time.”

Original: Libre aux nouveaux! d’exécrer les ancêtres: on est chez soi et l’on a le temps. — Rimbaud defends the right of new artists to reject inherited authorities and create on their own terms. · Letter to Paul Demeny, 15 May 1871 (French)

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Arthur Rimbaud

20 October 1854–10 November 1891

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was born on 20 October 1854 in Charleville, in the Ardennes region of northeastern France, and died on 10 November 1891 in Marseille. Few writers have produced so small a body of work and so immense a legend. Rimbaud wrote nearly all the poetry for which he is remembered between his…

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