Culture Quotes by Paul Verlaine

1 Culture quote by Paul Verlaine

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul capable of intense pleasures. It throws off bursts of fire and the sparkle of precious…

Paul Verlaine

Image

Other authors on Culture

More by Paul Verlaine

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

Paul Verlaine

Image

A flat black bug, that is London.

Paul Verlaine

Image

Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air.

Paul Verlaine

Image

Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.

Paul Verlaine

Image

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

Paul Verlaine

Image

Prends l'e loquence et tords-lui son cou! Take eloquence and break its neck!

Paul Verlaine

Image

Tears fall in my heart As tears fall on the town.

Paul Verlaine

Image

“MANDOLINE. The courtly serenaders, The beauteous listeners, Sit idling 'neath the branches A balmy zephyr stirs. It's Tircis and Aminta, Clitandre,--ever there!-- Damis, of melting sonnets To many a frosty fair. Their trailing flowery dresses, Their fine beflowered coats, Their elegance and lightness, And shadows blue,--all floats And mingles,--circling, wreathing,…

Paul Verlaine

“Of its persistent, artless strain: Naught so can soothe a soul's own pain, As making glad another soul!”

Paul Verlaine

Image

London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness,…

Paul Verlaine