Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
Source: Song of the Highest Tower, in Collected Poems (written 1872; 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.