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  • La musique avant toute chose.

    Paul Verlaine (2013). “Jadis et naguère”, p.13, Presses Électroniques de France
  • I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

  • A flat black bug, that is London.

    Black   London   Bugs  
    Paul Verlaine (1962). “The Sky Above the Roof: Fifty-six Poems”
  • A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.

    Fall   Sleep   Black  
  • I like this word decadent; all shimmering and purple and gold.

    Purple   Gold  
  • 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 marble statues.

    Beautiful   Dream   Song  
  • The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

    Travel   Adventure   Poet  
  • London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense, though it is really basically only a collection of scandal-mongering boroughs, vying with each other, ugly and dull, without any monuments except interminable docks.

    Law   Ducks   Drunk  
  • Sap which mounts, and flowers which thrust, Your childhood is a bower: Let my fingers wander in the moss Where glows the rosebud Let me among the clean grasses Drink the drops of dew Which sprinkle the tender flower

    Flower   June   Childhood  
    Paul Verlaine (1948). “Forty Poems”
  • Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air.

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

    Mean   Poetry   Machines  
  • I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul capable of intense pleasures. It throws off bursts of fire and the sparkle of precious stones. It is redolent of the rouge of courtesans, the games of the circus, the panting of the gladiators, the spring of wild beasts, the consuming in flames of races exhausted by their capacity for sensation, as the tramp of an invading army sounds.

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

    Love   Flower   Heart  
    1874 Romances sans paroles, 'Aquarelles, Green'
  • Prends l'e loquence et tords-lui son cou! Take eloquence and break its neck!

    Son   Necks   Break  
  • Tears fall in my heart As tears fall on the town.

    Rain   Fall   Heart  
    "The Sky Above the Roof: Fifty-six Poems".
  • Take eloquence and wring its neck.

    Paul Verlaine (1981). “Paul Verlaine, his absinthe-tinted song”, Ams Pr Inc
  • 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!

    Dream   Book   Night  
    Paul Verlaine (1906). “Poems”
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