Saturday, March 30, 2013

Paul Verlaine

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.
- Paul Verlaine

Il pleure dans mon coeur
Comme il pleut sur la ville.


Tears are shed in my heart
like the rain on the town.

- Paul Verlaine, One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Edition

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