Arthur Rimbaud — a remark

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“The Romantics? They prove so well that song is so seldom the work, that is, the thought sung and understood by the singer.”

Original: Les romantiques? qui prouvent si bien que la chanson est si peu souvent l’œuvre, c’est-à-dire la pensée chantée et comprise du chanteur? — Rimbaud distinguishes genuine poetic creation from merely conventional versification. · Letter to Paul Demeny, 15 May 1871 (French)

Arthur Rimbaud

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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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“I loved the illusory colours of the vowels.”

Original: J’aimais les peintures idiotes, dessus de portes, décors, toiles de saltimbanques, enseignes, enluminures populaires. — Rimbaud recalls his attraction to unconventional visual culture outside established artistic hierarchies. · A Season in Hell, Alchemy of the Word, 1873 (French)

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