Poetry Quotes by Paul Verlaine

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

— Paul Verlaine

A flat black bug, that is London.

— Paul Verlaine

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

— Paul Verlaine

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

— Paul Verlaine

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

— Paul Verlaine

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

— Paul Verlaine

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

— Paul Verlaine

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

— Paul Verlaine

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

“Rumour has a hundred mouths.”

— Paul Verlaine

“II pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville. Nơi tim đây nức nở, như thành phố mưa rơi...”

— Paul Verlaine