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Paul Verlaine Quotes

Paul Verlaine quotes

French Poet March 30, 1844 – January 8, 1896

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Your soul is a chosen landscape. Where charming masked and costumed figures go. Playing the lute and dancing and almost. Sad beneath their fantastic disguises. All sing in a minor key. Of all-conquering love and careless fortune. They do not seem to believe in their happiness. And their song mingles with the moonlight. The still moonlight, sad and beautiful, Which gives the birds to dream in the trees. And makes the fountain sprays sob in ecstasy, The tall, slender fountain sprays among the... Paul Verlaine
The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The hour of steaming tea and banished books; The sweetness of the evening at an end, The dear fatigue, and right to rest attained, And worshipped expectation of the night? Oh, all these things, in unrelenting flight, My dream pursues through all the vain delays, Impatient of the weeks, mad at the days! Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine quote: "Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my..."
Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you. Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine quote: "Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town."
Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town. Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine quote: "A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic..."
A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words. Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine quote: "An infinite Resignedness Rains where the white ..."
An infinite Resignedness Rains where the white Mists opalesce In the moon-shower... Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine quote: "The poet is a madman lost in adventure."
The poet is a madman lost in adventure. Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine quote: "A vast black sleepfalls over my lifesleep, all hopesleep, all..."
A vast black sleepfalls over my lifesleep, all hopesleep, all desire. Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine quote: "I am the Empire at the end of the decadence."
I am the Empire at the end of the decadence. Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine quote: "je suis l'empire la fin de la dcadence"
je suis l'empire la fin de la dcadence Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine quote: "Take eloquence and wring its neck."
Take eloquence and wring its neck. Paul Verlaine

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