"A poem is really a kind of machine……" — Paul Verlaine
"A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words."
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Paul Verlaine
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12 Quotes by Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine has 12 quotes on this site.
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The poet is a madman lost in adventure.
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Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.
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Take eloquence and wring its neck.
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I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
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I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a…
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London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of…
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La musique avant toute chose.
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Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.
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Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost…
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A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.
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The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished…
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he…
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