“He [Arthur Rimbaud] had brown hair, and blue eyes, of a double blue, the areas of which, deeper or lighter, expanded or merged together at moments of reverie, or intense thought: when he was thinking, when he was staring into the unknown, he carried his mental gaze very far, his eyelids moved closer, like a cat’s, the long silky lashes fluttered slightly, while his head remained still.”

—Ernest Delahay; Pierre Petitfils, Rimbaud, translated by Alan Sheridan, 1987.