Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine
Paul-Marie Verlainewas a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 March 1844
CityMetz, France
CountryFrance
empires ends decadence
I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
air music-is
Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air...
beautiful dream song
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.
law ducks drunk
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.
necks eloquence
Take eloquence and wring its neck.
son necks break
Prends l'e loquence et tords-lui son cou! Take eloquence and break its neck!
purple gold
I like this word decadent; all shimmering and purple and gold.