mystery reduced one solution, lies a simple coincidence: Rimbaud’s int — Graham Robb, Rimbaud: A Biography

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If the mystery can be reduced to one solution, it lies in a simple coincidence: Rimbaud's interest in his own work had survived the realization that the world would not be changed by verbal innovation. It did not survive the failure of all his adult relationships. He had always treated poems as a form of private communication. He gave his songs to chansonniers, his satires to satirists. Without a constant companion, he was writing in a void.

Graham Robb, Rimbaud: A Biography

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