Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.
Rimbaud, Arthur. Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters. Translated by Wallace Fowlie, University of Chicago Press, 1966, p. 179.
One of 5 very accomplished sisters of the prestigious Mitford family, she married Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists. Her marriage, in 1936, took place at the home of Joseph Goebbels, with Adolf Hitler as guest of honor. Subsequently, her involvement with right-wing political causes resulted in three years' internment during the Second World War and social disgrace.and ostracism.
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes, and his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism. Born in Charleville, he started writing at a very young age and excelled as a student, but abandoned his formal education in his teenage years to run away from home to Paris amidst the Franco-Prussian War. During his late adolescence and early adulthood he produced the bulk of his literary output, then completely stopped writing literature at age 20, after assembling his last major work, Illuminations.
