"Take eloquence and wring its neck." — Paul Verlaine
"Take eloquence and wring its neck."
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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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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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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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More Eloquence Quotes
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than…
— Francis Bacon
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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can…
— Joseph Addison
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless.
— Herophilos
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Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech,…
— Hannah More
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No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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When we rely upon organization, we get what organization can do; when we rely upon education, we get what education…
— A C Dixon
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What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the…
— Joan Miro
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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
— Heinrich Heine
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible…
— George Washington
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