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Paul Verlaine quotes: Of its persistent, artless strain: Naught so can soothe a soul's own pain, As making glad another soul!

Of its persistent, artless strain: Naught so can soothe a soul's own pain, As making glad another soul!

Paul Verlaine quotes: An infinite Resignedness Rains where the white Mists opalesce In the moon-shower ...

An infinite
Resignedness
Rains where the white
Mists opalesce
In the moon-shower ...

Paul Verlaine quotes: A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

Paul Verlaine quotes: A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.

A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.

Paul Verlaine quotes: Take eloquence and wring its neck.

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

Paul Verlaine quotes: A flat black bug, that is London.

A flat black bug, that is London.

Paul Verlaine quotes: Tired of life, afraid of death, not unlikeA lost brig, toy of ebb and flow on the ocean,My soul weighs anchor for a frightful shipwreck.

Tired of life, afraid of death, not unlike
A lost brig, toy of ebb and flow on the ocean,
My soul weighs anchor for a frightful shipwreck.

Paul Verlaine quotes: The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

Paul Verlaine quotes: Night. Rain. A livid sky pierces the laceworkOf spires and towers, the silhouette of a GothicTown dim in the gray distance.

Night. Rain. A livid sky pierces the lacework
Of spires and towers, the silhouette of a Gothic
Town dim in the gray distance.

Paul Verlaine quotes: Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.

Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.

Paul Verlaine quotes: Prends l'e loquence et tords-lui son cou! Take eloquence and break its neck!

Prends l'e loquence et tords-lui son cou! Take eloquence and break its neck!

Paul Verlaine quotes: Il pleure dans mon coeurComme il pleut sur la ville.Tears are shed in my heart like the rain on the town.

Il pleure dans mon coeur
Comme il pleut sur la ville.
Tears are shed in my heart like the rain on the town.

Paul Verlaine quotes: Music before all else,and for that choose the irregular,which is vaguer and melts better into the air ...

Music before all else,
and for that choose the irregular,
which is vaguer and melts better into the air ...

Paul Verlaine quotes: I like this word decadent; all shimmering and purple and gold.

I like this word decadent; all shimmering and purple and gold.

Paul Verlaine quotes: I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

Paul Verlaine quotes: What we need, we, is fixedness intense, Unequalled effort, strife that shall not cease,

What we need, we, is fixedness intense, Unequalled effort, strife that shall not cease,

Paul Verlaine quotes: Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.

Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.