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The poet makes himself a seer by a long, prodigious, and rational disordering of all the senses. Every form of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he consumes all the poisons in him, and keeps only their quintessences.

Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), French poet. Letter, May 15, 1871. Collected Poems, ed. Oliver Bernard (1962).

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