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Paul Verlaine has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The poet is a madman lost in adventure.
• Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.
• Take eloquence and wring its neck.
• A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.
• I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
• I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary…
• London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws…
• La musique avant toute chose.
• Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.
• Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath…
• A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.
• The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The…

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