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Rimbaud quit poetry at 20 to sell coffee

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Arthur Rimbaud casually redefined French poetry as a rebellious teenager, then decided the entire literary world was fundamentally boring. By the ripe old age of twenty, he permanently put down his pen and moved to Africa to work as a coffee merchant. He never wrote another poem, leaving the critics completely baffled.

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