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I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss. — Tom Verlaine

The Beat thing happened when I was younger. I used to run away from home, inspired by the Beats, like in '64 and '65. — Tom Verlaine

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

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

Places like Belgium and the south of France, Sweden and Copenhagen are really alive. They really love rock 'n' roll, they really respond. — Tom Verlaine

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

You know, there is something I'm looking for when I'm writing. But I couldn't tell you what that is. — Tom Verlaine

Take eloquence and wring its neck. — Paul Verlaine

A flat black bug, that is London. — Paul Verlaine

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

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

I reach down and grab my cock
the rolling scenery in my mind
far from peaceful — Wren Verlaine

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade. — Tom Verlaine

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence. — Paul Verlaine

Practice? I never practice. I just write songs and take solos. — Tom Verlaine

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

I don't think Marquee Moon was so good, y'know? Just another record. First records everybody likes a lot. — Tom Verlaine

The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell. — Tom Verlaine

Every good story deserves a romance. — Chantal Verlaine

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

The poet is a madman lost in adventure. — Paul Verlaine

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

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really. — Tom Verlaine

I'm not a clown but I'm not an academic either. — Tom Verlaine

What's really fun is to write under different names. — Tom Verlaine

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

And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds. — Dorothy Parker

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

The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug. — Tom Verlaine

Leave it to the Russians to have an angel gulag. — Verlaine