Arthur Rimbaud — a remark

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“The doctor says it will take me a month, and even afterwards I shall only be able to begin walking very slowly.”

Original: Le médecin dit que j’en aurai pour un mois, et même ensuite je ne pourrai commencer à marcher que très lentement. — Rimbaud describes his deteriorating condition with characteristic factual directness. · Letter to Isabelle Rimbaud, 17 June 1891 (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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