Paul Verlaine Quotes

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

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

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

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

Tears fall in my heart As tears fall on the town.

La musique avant toute chose.

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

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

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

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

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

A flat black bug, that is London.

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.