Paul Verlaine Quotes

Et je m'en vaisAu vent mauvaisQui m'emporteDeçà, delà,Pareil à laFeuille morte.

Paul Verlaine

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• I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Job
  • Inspiration
  • Writer

• I'm definitely a vintage collector. I have a wardrobe of core basics that I like to spice up with different colors, new accessories, and I love to try on new things to invite something different. I find, with every new stage of my life, my self-image shifts with new duties and responsibilities, and so does my fashion style.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Life
  • Fashion
  • Style

• The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Faith
  • Like
  • Weapons

• I have disassociated myself from that book.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Book
  • Myself

• My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'

  

  Dane Cook
  • Mom
  • Compass
  • Nickname

• Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

  

  Kate Adie
  • People
  • Children
  • Young

• I never forbid myself anything.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Anything

• I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.

  

  Gary Owen
  • Kids
  • Black
  • Always

• We live in a society where nothing is sacred.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Live
  • Society
  • Sacred

• The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Death
  • Genius
  • Stone

• With every social media, there's hate and things like that.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Hate
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Art matters.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Art
  • Matters

• The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writer
  • Poet
  • Step

• When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like 'Madea', and 'Night, Mother', and 'Sam Shepard', and all that kind of stuff. That's what I really wanted to do.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Mother
  • Night
  • College

• I love dishes that feature the various shades of a single colour, making you stop to check what's in there.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Single
  • Various
  • Feature

• I think any actor just wants to keep working, and for me, I want to work on projects that are with fun people.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression...

  

  Karl Marx
  • Reality
  • Positive
  • Aesthetic

• But so fair,She takes the breath of men awayWho gaze upon her unaware.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Men
  • She

• You can remember times when you were a kid, when life looked too doggoned deliciously beautiful to be left alone. So you could feel like that again if you worked at it.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Remember

• She'd assumed she'd be married and have kids by this age, that she would be grooming her own daughter for this, as her friends were doing. She wanted it so much she would dream about it sometimes, and then she would wake up with the skin at her wrists and neck red from the scratchy lace of the wedding gown she'd dreamed of wearing. But she'd never felt anything for the men she'd dated, nothing beyond her own desperation. And her desire to marry wasn't strong enough, would never be strong enough, to allow her to marry a man she didn't love.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Kids
  • Dream
  • Strong

• Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

  

  Ismail Merchant
  • Sadness
  • Melancholy
  • Emphasis

• You're not supposed to do a television series that takes place in nine cities all over the globe. Everyone will tell you that that's undoable.

  

  Brian J. Smith

• Et je m'en vaisAu vent mauvaisQui m'emporteDeçà, delà,Pareil à laFeuille morte.

  

  Paul Verlaine