"Tore Down a la Rimbaud" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and included on his 1985 album, A Sense of Wonder.

The title and theme of the song derives from French poet Arthur Rimbaud who became famous for his poetry at the age of fifteen in 1869 and who quit writing six years later.

Morrison had begun writing the song in 1975 during the three-year professionally inactive time period after he released the album, Veedon Fleece.

Morrison has been quoted on the origins of the song: [It was] during the period... between Veedon Fleece and A Period of Transition [that] I started "Tore Down a la Rimbaud" – after I read that [Rimbaud] stopped writing altogether when he was twenty-six, became an arms dealer or something.

However, the song failed to appear on his first compilation (and best selling album) The Best of Van Morrison.