Frozen Ghost

"In a loft in which I was shut up when I was twelve, I came to know the world;
I illustrated the human comedy. In a storeroom I learned history. At some
nocturnal festival in a northern city I met all the wives of the old painters.
In an old alley in Paris, I was taught the classical sciences.....
I really am from beyond the grave, and no commissions."

-Arthur Rimbaud