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I'm not even sure who my audience is.
— Tom Verlaine
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
When I think of 'influence', I think of 'influenza', like somebody's picked up a germ.
— 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
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 poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.
— Paul Verlaine
I really don't have that much interest in stardom.
— Tom 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
Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.
— 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
A lost brig, toy of ebb and flow on the ocean,
My soul weighs anchor for a frightful shipwreck. — Paul Verlaine
I never liked mellow sounding guitar.
— Tom Verlaine
All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going ... it's so chatty or something.
— Tom Verlaine
When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.
— Tom Verlaine
Boogie! I hate boogie, God, I mean, not the Chicago boogie like Willie Dixon or Howlin' Wolf, but all those awful white bands ...
— Tom Verlaine
Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.
— Paul Verlaine
I don't think anybody thinks about their past much, unless they're in a mental institution.
— Tom Verlaine
You can't get so interested in just making sounds. The point of it all is some kind of expression.
— Tom Verlaine
I've got a quote for you, a good quote to describe Television ... In madness there is order.
— Tom Verlaine
I told somebody in Europe I was 43. I never tell my true age. It's ridiculous that people ask. The press doesn't deserve anything but lies.
— Tom Verlaine
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
Of spires and towers, the silhouette of a Gothic
Town dim in the gray distance. — Paul Verlaine
I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.
— Tom Verlaine
I like this word decadent; all shimmering and purple and gold.
— 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
What we need, we, is fixedness intense, Unequalled effort, strife that shall not cease,
— Paul Verlaine
What's really fun is to write under different names.
— Tom Verlaine
I'm not a clown but I'm not an academic either.
— Tom Verlaine
I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
— Paul Verlaine
The poet is a madman lost in adventure.
— Paul Verlaine
Music before all else,
and for that choose the irregular,
which is vaguer and melts better into the air ... — Paul Verlaine
and for that choose the irregular,
which is vaguer and melts better into the air ... — Paul Verlaine
Every good story deserves a romance.
— Chantal Verlaine
The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.
— Tom Verlaine
I don't think Marquee Moon was so good, y'know? Just another record. First records everybody likes a lot.
— Tom Verlaine