"The poet is a madman lost in adventure." — Paul Verlaine
"The poet is a madman lost in adventure."
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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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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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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 Adventure Quotes
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
— David Attenborough
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
— Saint Augustine
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
— Ansel Adams
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
— Christian Bale
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
— James M. Barrie
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
— Edward Abbey
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
— Mary Ritter Beard
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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