All Paul Verlaine Quotes
- The poet is a madman lost in adventure. Adventure
- Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town. Fall
- Take eloquence and wring its neck. Eloquence
- A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words. Kind
- I am the Empire at the end of the decadence. Decadence
- 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… All
- London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense,… All
- La musique avant toute chose. Avant
- Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you. Beats
- Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.… All
- A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire. All
- The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The hour of steaming… All