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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.
Source: Letter, 15 May 1871 (published in Collected Poems, ed. by Oliver Bernard, 1962).
-- Arthur Rimbaud, (Oct 20 1854-1891), French poet, adventurer; He identified with the Symbolists and, for a time, associated with Paul Verlaine; wrote Illuminations.