Rimbaud : (Jean-Nicolas-) Arthur (1854-91), French poet & adventurer whose small poetic output had an incalculable influence on the Symbolist movement.
... after ten minutes it becomes bearable and I can go on, but it is the change of position (or of blood pressure in the veins) that is ... difficult. So here I am, half disabled. I think of my friend Rimbaud. We have walked a lot. (...) Since '73, I have been running a lot, and these last weeks, it was a real pentathlon (it was completely mad). At times, I would get cramps in my leg, because of the bad... else it is not worth living. What do I care about a dozen embolisms? As for walking ... I wish I could fly (do they have a trick to make flying legs?). Strangely enough, I see or rather feel Rimbaud as if I were feeling all he felt in his hospital in Marseille — I must have lived that. So the operation has Page 49 already been performed, I am not going to have it again. Sometimes... with your eyes." Yes, She is there . * The junction is made. * Attempted heart attack. The pain: disappeared. December 14, 1981 The New Auroville Treasure Island Rimbaud and Jules Verne rediscovered Reunited on Mother's Island. * (Letter to Sir C.P.N. Singh, originally in English) Dearest and most valued Companion, ... Step by step, I can see how materially ...
... to be the founder of a new trend of poetry—impressionist and symbolist, followed in varying degrees and not by any means in the same way by Verlaine, Rimbaud,—both of them poets of great fame. Verlaine is certainly a great poet and people now say Rimbaud also, but I have never come across his poetry except in extracts—and developing in Valery and other noted writers Page 424 of today. It... impression is that there is much fumbling and that more often it is certain obscure and not always very safe layers that are tapped. That accounts for the note of diabolism that comes in in Baudelaire, in Rimbaud also, I believe, and in certain ugly elements in English surrealist poetry and painting. But this is only an impression. Nirod's poetry (what he writes now) is from the Dream Consciousness, no doubt ...
... house to another at the whim of more or less benevolent landladies, with one meal a day, and not even an overcoat to put on his back, but always laden with books: the French symbolists, Mallarme, Rimbaud, whom he read in the original French long before reading the Bhagavad Gita in translation. To us Sri Aurobindo personifies a unique synthesis. He was born in Calcutta on August 15, 1872, the year... too, has its place, for not everyone has the necessary development to feel the intensity of love contained in a simple little golden light without form. Still more remarkably, if a poet, such as Rimbaud or Shelley, came in contact with these Page 170 same planes of consciousness, he would see something completely different again, yet still the same thing; obviously, neither Durga nor... is of particular concern to a poet, so he might perceive instead a great vibration, pulsations of light, or colored waves, which in him would translate into an intense poetic emotion. We may recall Rimbaud: "O happiness, O reason, I drew aside the azure of the sky, which is blackness, and I lived as a golden spark of natural light." This emotional translation may indeed come from the same plane ...
... modern poetry the violent renovation it needed. His successors were the Symbolists - Mallarmé , Rimbaud, Verlaine - who sought to "bury their meaning in a tissue of images and symbols" (Bernard Weinberg). Page 421 If Verlaine was the purest singer of the group and Rimbaud the 'god-struggler' and the laureate of desires, Mallarmé sought to crystallised the essences ...
... founder of a new trend of poetry, impressionist and symbolist, followed in varying degrees and not by any means in the same way by Verlaine, 89 Rimbaud, 90 both of them poets of great fame—Verlaine is certainly a great poet and people now say Rimbaud also, but I have never come across his poetry except in extracts—and dev- eloping in Valery and other noted writers of today. It seems that all... is that there is much fumbling and that more often it is certain obscure and not always very safe layers that are tapped. That accounts for the note of diabolism that comes in in Beaudelaire, in Rimbaud also, I believe, and in certain ugly elements in English surrealist poetry and painting. But this is only an impression. Nirod's poetry (what he writes now) is from the Dream Page 265 ...
... the founder of a new trend of poetry, impressionist and symbolist, followed in varying degrees and not by any means in the same way by Verlaine and Rimbaud, both of them poets of great fame. Verlaine is certainly a great poet and people now say Rimbaud also, but I have never come across his poetry except in extracts. This strain has developed in Valery and other noted writers of today. It seems that... impression is that there is much fumbling and that more often it is certain obscure and not always very safe layers that are tapped. That accounts for the note of diabolism that comes in in Baudelaire, in Rimbaud also, I believe, and in certain ugly elements in English surrealist poetry and painting. But this is only an impression. Nirod's poetry (what he writes now) is from the Dream-Consciousness, no doubt ...
... France, and Symbolism in the special sense is a mode of poetry consummated first in the France of the closing decades of the nineteenth century. It is associated with the names of Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarme, Valery and some others. But it is not exactly a single mode of poetry. There are varieties of Sym-bolism and not all continue or consummate the Blakean type. Let me give you the main four... fundamental Sense-mind at the back of all sensation and independent of them and even capable of func-tioning without the sense-organs. Synaesthesis is Inter-sense Sym-bolism or Inter-sense Correspondence. Rimbaud is perhaps its most powerful practitioner. He set forth the doctrine of it in the famous words: "The poet makes himself a visionary through a long, immense and planned derangement of all the senses ...
... when is present the incarnate Divine amongst us. But the yearning soul of a poet is always in search of the smile of beauty held in its embrace by the truth of the creative spirit. Arthur Rimbaud had made a pertinent insightful discovery, that one must be a seer, that one must make oneself a seer. He held that "the poet makes himself a seer by a long, gigantic and rational derangement of all... last phrase is somewhat puzzling. Rimbaud's own life was a question mark in spite of his association with Paul Verlaine who had introduced him to the nineteenth century literary circles of Paris. Rimbaud was a "mystical thief of fire" and believed in purification by dissolution. It is acceptable that we must not depend upon the senses because their faulty workings invariably cause distortions in our ...
... priestesses of the new “Churches”, of the prophetesses in the apocalyptic movements of the past. In 1871 Arthur Rimbaud wrote: “When the endless servitude of the woman will be come to an end, when she will live for herself and by herself … she will be a poet, she too!” By “poet”, Rimbaud meant the highest condition a human being can attain. “The woman will discover matters that are still unknown!” ...
... and Sigmund Freud and his theory of the subconscious. Impressionism and the post-impressionist schools in painting destroyed the classical norms in the arts, as did the symbolist poets Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé in literature. All this, and much more, really looked like “an attempt all over the world towards breaking the veil” between the outer and the inner realities, necessary for a rediscovery ...
... humanity stood confronted with itself. Mirra was born at a time when the human being turned inwards and subjected to close scrutiny all that had gone before. This happened in literature (Proust, Rimbaud, Mallarmé), philosophy (Nietzsche and Bergson), psychology (Freud and Jung), biology (Darwin, Pasteur) and physical science (the Curies, Planck, Lorentz, Einstein). The incredible twentieth century ...
... Stephane Mallarme (1842-98), French symbolist poet; author of Uapres-midi d'un faune. Paul Verlaine (1844-96), French lyric poet belonging to the Symbolist movement. Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91), French symbolist poet. Dadaists : Post-World War I cultural movement in visual arts and literature. Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936), English classical scholar and ...
... Ibid .) 4. This patter of Time's marring steps across the solitude Of Truth's abidingness, Self-blissful and alone. (Arjava [J. A. Chadwick) 5. Million d'oiseaux d'or, 6 future Vigueur!'(Rimbaud) 6. Rapt above earth by power of one fair face. 7. I saw them walking in an air of glory. (Vaughan) 8. Solitary thinkings such as dodge Conception to the very bourne of heaven, ...
... matter was coming about according to the Mother’s testimony. The Sun-Vibration Million d’oiseaux d’or, ô future Vigueur … (A million golden birds, O Strenght of the future) — Arthur Rimbaud, in “Le bateau ivre” Sri Aurobindo’s disciples have asked him in writing, and sometimes orally too, countless questions about the Supramental, tomorrow’s Wonder. This was only natural. Had we ...
... This patter of Time's marring steps across the solitude Of Truth's abidingness, Self-blissful and alone. (Arjava [J. A. Chadwick]) 5.Million d'oiseaux d'or, ô future Vigueur! 1 (Rimbaud) 6.Rapt above earth by power of one fair face. 7.I saw them walking in an air of glory. (Vaughan) 8. Solitary thinkings such as dodge Conception to the very bourne of heaven ...
... and the whirlwind." I think I am correctly interpreting the feeling of my young Indian friends when I say that they see the heroes of your novels as "raw mystics," to use Claudel's description of Rimbaud. This may seem a surprising attribute, considering your heroes' atheism, but that is because we have too often confused mysticism or spirituality with religion, as Sri Aurobindo stresses. One need ...
... equal simplicity but it is a stirred and not a flat simplicity as here. I am afraid Ghose's impressive and valuable speculations apropos of the piece and his rhetorical summoning of Holderlin and Rimbaud and Rilke have led you astray in pronouncing : "The poem is neither question nor answer, but resonates, like Blake's 'The Tyger', with 'fathomless suggestions'." Indeed the theme is profound and has ...
... and Homer rightly deserve to fall into that category. But the ancient Latin Catullus, the French poet Villon of the medieval age, most of the 'Satanic' poets of the Romantic age, and Oscar Wilde and Rimbaud of the present age – none of them are great souls or possess anything remarkably spiritual in their nature. But on that score can we ever deny or belittle their poetic genius? True, ethics and aesthetics ...
... Lamarck's pioneering genius. × 2 “Millions of golden birds, O future Strength...â€� Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) was perhaps the most inspired among the French Symbolists. “I am working to make myself a visionary,â€� he wrote when he was sixteen, “a language must be found.... Inventions of the ...
... the other way round : the idea has become foremost and the sound secondary, each word has only one meaning at a time, firmly fixed and stamped, and our poets lament ("Another language!" exclaimed Rimbaud). But to the Rishi, the word was not yet the conventional symbol of an idea ; when, for instance, he used the word vrika , his meaning could be the tearer, the divider, the dualizer, and incidentally ...
... is a tremendous appearance of "something" which goes on imperturbably beneath, and through all appearances. We are in 1897, one year before Gustave Moreau’s death, six years after the death of Rimbaud. The Impressionists’ explosion of light had set off a whole train of waves across Europe and gathered together a remarkable palette on the banks of the Seine, which was already bursting into a thousand ...
... French language as developed through the centuries: Hugo at even his best had but sublimated by an imaginative and rhythmic process the spirit of prose. It is with men like Nerval and Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Verlaine, that the French Muse began to emancipate herself from prose, and in Mallarme she exceeded herself by partly becoming non-French. Mallarme was conscious of his own rare accomplishment ...
... nature inclined to write the last type of poetry and it is through his work of this type that he most influenced the French poets who prepared or founded the school of Symbolism — Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarme, Valery. But in the three-stanza'd composition before us we have a complexity of consciousness poised in a catholic inspiration with no special bias towards the Symbolic or Symbolist except ...
... with oneself, mankind or the cosmos. What painter, what poet, what writer has not wrenched from this conflict the best of his art, from Michelangelo to Goya, from Van Gogh to Rodin, from Villon to Rimbaud, Baudelaire or Dostoevski? And the work of art—the painting, novel or poem—is a harmony torn from this disharmony, a conquest over some chaos, a response to a question posed by man—a metamorphosis ...
... but not without the aid of beautiful rhythm and metre: in short, a new method for Page 5 giving poetic pleasure. The other half which even those arch-symbolists Mallarm é and Rimbaud often missed was that the flow of associations and symbols, if restricted to form a particular poem, must carry in it by virtue of that restriction a coherence which can be perceived as however subdued ...
... novels about black magic, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle and his idiosyncratic Sherlock Holmes, Marcel Proust, chronicler of his time, and the superlative French poets Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Valéry. And there were of course the Impressionists, scandalizing but revolutionizing the world of the arts, not to forget the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche, loosing ...
... of the Creatrix, at each moment in time, before time, after time. Together with the seeing attention, the gift of wonder is the indispensable quality of the actually conscious human being, the one Rimbaud had in mind when he wrote: II faut être absolument moderne (one must be absolutely modern) — modern not by way of fashion but as an instrument of experience and knowledge, as an ‘attitude in time’ ...
... perfect form and frame of life.’ 17 ‘The next century will be spiritual or it will not be,’ is a well-known statement by André Malraux. And one century earlier, the seer-poet who was the young Arthur Rimbaud had concluded Une saison en enfer (a season in hell) with the words: ‘We are going towards the spirit! It is very certain, it is oracular what I say!’ Many, since, feel likewise and look in the same ...
... In 1880 Impressionism had reached its zenith and was already splitting up into other, no less amazing or disturbing schools of art. In its footsteps followed the literary symbolism of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé and Valéry, now venerated as god-like statues at the gates of all modernist writing. “It may be pure accident or arbitrary selection”, writes Eric Hobsbawm in The Age of Empire ...
... 666 Moritz Bassler and Hildegard Châtellier (ed.), op. cit., p. 104. 667 Ulrich Linse, op. cit., p. 15. 668 Moritz Bassler and Hildegard Châtellier (ed.), op. cit., p. 106. 669 Arthur Rimbaud: Oeuvres complètes, p. 272. 670 Marion Ackermann: “Ueberlegungen zum Einfluss des Spiritismus auf Kandinsky”, in Mystique, mysticisme, etc. , p. 190. 671 David Clay Large: Hitlers München ...
... Inner Circle Redlich, Fritz: Hitler – Diagnosis of a Destructive Prophet Rees, Laurence: The Nazis – A Warning from History Reuth, Ralph Georg: Hitler – Eine politische Biographie Rimbaud, Arthur: Oeuvres complètes Rissmann, Michael: Hitlers Gott – Vorsehungsglaube und Sendungsbewusstsein des deutschen Diktators Rohrmoser, Günter: Deutschlands Tragödie – Der geistige Weg ...
... advice regarding his sentimental adventures. It was the time of one of the great culminations of European art with the music of Berlioz, Franck, Saint-Saëns, the poetry of Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarmé, the novels of Zola, the operas of Massenet, the recitals of Eugène Ysaÿe, a Belgian violinist of genius, of the bals (dancing halls), the Moulin Rouge and the Grand Guignol … all ...
... Omnipotent. This turning towards its own Archetype, the supernal origin of its strength, so that a strange new elevation is achieved, seems to be pictured in that far-seeing line of the French poet Rimbaud: Millions d'oiseaux d'or, 6 future vigueur! Page 167 which may be rendered: Millions of golden birds, O vigour to come! Mark the word "golden". It points to an ...
... fire, flame, light or radiance". You have told me: "Your theme is always the longing to capture your shining quarry in a net of sound." Here I am interested by your finding in me an affinity with Rimbaud rather than with Mallarme. Perhaps the most thrilling prophecy of the new magnificence that has to emerge from the unexplored mystery beyond us is in those two lines of Le Bateau Ivre: Est-ce ...
... Stéphane Mallar-me who was the founder of a new trend of poetry, impressionist and symbolist, himself followed in varying degrees, and not by any means in the same way, by Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, both of them poets of great fame. A fresh spirit was abroad. The very atmosphere was surcharged with a revolt against the old classical values —the legacy of the Renaissance and the Baroque ...
... worked out despite all natural impossibilities, and possibly despite the specimen who was the object of the mutation. Our language may be inadequate—We need a new language! Mother exclaimed, like Rimbaud— and our images may be childish to describe the transition to that other species which will breathe such a different air and whose standards of consciousness are likely to be as radically different ...
... Giordano Bruno was stubborn, and so am I. Today, happily, there is no more burning at the stake, but there are still assassins in canyons. And I think there are assassins everywhere, as my brother Rimbaud had seen: Voici venir le temps des assassins , “The age of assassins is upon us.” It took me eight years to materialize that fabulous message of six thousand pages and to try – oh, what a task ...
... 31st, 1993. Dear Friend, What a happiness to hear news of you after so long.... I have been reading your poems — what a beautifully produced book, with the Golden Bird (one of Rimbaud's?) on the cover. I at once read your introduction, most of the first section, and then, with great interest, the poems with the comments by Sri Aurobindo, whose insight into the different levels ...
... circle high above the bare slopes and jagged peaks of Shiva's mountain, the unexplored terrain where the Adventure begins with a sudden flight carrying skywards the body's energies set free - Rimbaud's million golden birds, a promise of glory to come. We are a long way from the aureoled "golden bird of peace" depicted on the jacket of The Secret Splendour and so charmingly evoked in the ...
... Mallarme's on the dead Poe: Tel qu'en Lui-même enfin l'éternité le change, (At last to Himself he is changed by eternity) or the rapturous visionariness that uplifts us in Rimbaud's Million d'oiseaux d'or, ô future Vigueur! (Millions of golden birds, O Vigour to come!) What is, in several respects, the modern opposite of Symbolism à la Mallarmé by ...
... soul of inno- Page 83 cent clairvoyant childhood — Thou over whom thy immortality Broods like the Day, as well as from that astonishing spirit-illumined line of Rimbaud's: . Million d'oiseaux d'or, 6 future Vigueur! — a line whose prophetic superhuman elan is perhaps just caught in the rendering: Millions of golden birds, O vigour to come! ...
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