"I love this word decadence, all shimmering in……" — Paul Verlaine
"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 stones. It is redolent of the rouge of courtesans, the games of the circus, the panting of the gladiators, the spring of wild beasts, the consuming in flames of races exhausted by their capacity for sensation, as the tramp of an invading army sounds."
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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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A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.
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I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
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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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