31 Quotes by Paul Verlaine

Ce fut le temps sous de clairs ciels,(Vous en souvenez-vous, Madame?)De baisers superficielsEt des sentiments à fleur d'âme. It was a time of cloudless skies,(My lady, do you recall?)Of kisses that brushed the surfaceAnd feelings that shook the soul.

Le Poète, l'amour du Beau, voilà sa foi,L'Azur, son étendard, et l'Idéal, sa loi !

(...)Mon âme pour d'affreux naufrages appareille.

Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

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.

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

A flat black bug, that is London.