“Tears are shed in my heart like the rain on the town. ( Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville. )”
Quotes by Paul Verlaine
“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.”
“Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.”
Paul VerlainePaul Verlaine was a prominent French poet and critic, recognized as a leading figure of the Symbolist and Decadent movements. Born in Metz to a middle-class family, he developed a passion for the arts...