"Love...no such thing.Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that's certain."
French poet whose innovative and intensely lyrical work transformed modern poetry while he was still a teenager. He is best known for A Season in Hell and Illuminations. Though his literary career was brief, his influence on Symbolist and modernist writing has been profound.