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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 46564 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), French poet. Letter, May 15, 1871. Collected Poems, ed. Oliver Bernard (1962). |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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