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>From late October 1870, Rimbaud's behaviour became openly provocative; he drank alcohol, spoke rudely, composed scatological poems, stole books from local shops, and abandoned his characteristically neat appearance by allowing his hair to grow long. On 13 and 15 May 1871, he wrote letters (the lettres du voyant), to Izambard and to Demeny respectively, about his method for attaining poetical transcendence or visionary power through a "long, intimidating, immense and rational derangement of all the senses. The sufferings are enormous, but one must be strong, be born a poet, and I have recognized myself as a poet."
What did he mean by this?
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Sounds like your average college student desu
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>>8449404
Yeah, I know lots of college students whose goal in life is to attain poetical transcendence or visionary power.
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>>8449348
That he was ready to stop being pounded by Verlaine.
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>>8449348
He felt that knowledge and inspiration are empirical and sought to vary his experiences emotionally, politically, aesthetically in order to better express himself.
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>>8449348
he discovered booze and cock and thought he had found his calling in life
then his boyfriend shot him and he finally sobered up, gave up the poetry and started exploiting Africans for money
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