Arthur Rimbaud was born on this date in 1854.
I say you have to be a visionary, make yourself a visionary.
A Poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless,
and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of
suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he exhausts within himself all
poisons, and preserves their quintessences. Unspeakable torment, where he
will need the greatest faith, a superhuman strength, where he becomes among all
men the great invalid, the great criminal, the great accursed–and the Supreme
Scientist! For he attains the unknown! Because he has cultivated his
soul, already rich, more than anyone! He attains the unknown, and if,
demented, he finally loses the understanding of his visions, he will at least
have seen them! So what if he is destroyed in his ecstatic flight through
things unheard of, unnameable: other horrible workers will come; they will
begin at the horizons where the first one has fallen!
. . . So the poet, therefore, is truly a thief of fire.
Arthur Rimbaud
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