What is Arthur Rimbaud most famous for?
For shattering the rotten corpse of verse. They call me a poet, a prodigy, an end. Nonsense. I conjured visions, melted words into suns and storms. *A Season in Hell* was the vomit of a soul wrestling with the filth of existence. *Illuminations*? The raw shimmer of the new, the utterly other. I broke language, I broke myself. I abandoned them all, that world of merchants and dying light, for the fire that consumes. I was to be a seer, by a long, immense, and rational derangement of all the senses. And I was.
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