Confessions
A source page for quotes linked to Paul Verlaine.
Related Quotes
“Ce n'était ni le Diable ni le bon Dieu, c'était Arthur Rimbaud, c'est-à-dire un très grand poète.”
Source: Romances sans paroles
Source: Poèmes saturniens
“It is the return of a dog to his vomit.”
Source: Confessions
Source: Fêtes galantes / Romances sans paroles / Poèmes saturniens
“A flat black bug, that is London.”
Source: The Sky Above the Roof: Fifty-six Poems
“Prends l'e loquence et tords-lui son cou! Take eloquence and break its neck!”
“I like this word decadent; all shimmering and purple and gold.”
“Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.”
“A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.”
Source: Poems
“Take eloquence and wring its neck.”
Source: Paul Verlaine, his absinthe-tinted song
“A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.”
Source: Forty Poems
“La musique avant toute chose.”
Source: Jadis et naguère