Quote of Paul Verlaine - Music before all else....

Biography - Paul Verlaine:

French writer and poet.
Born: 1844 - Died: 1896
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

Quote

Music before all else.”
Paul Verlaine - Art Poétique

music

Translation

(French, German)

De la musique avant toute chose.”
Paul Verlaine - Art Poétique

Musik, Musik vor allen Dingen.”
Paul Verlaine - Art Poétique

Quotes about music:

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
Victor Hugo - William Shakespeare

Architecture in general is frozen music.”
Friedrich von Schelling

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
Ludwig van Beethoven

If music be the food of love, play on.”
William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.”
Gottfried Leibniz

All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.”
Johann Sebastian Bach

music

All about music...

Paul Verlaine also said...

Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches,
And here is my heart which beats only for you. ”
Paul Verlaine - Green

Tears are shed in my heart like the rain on the town.”
Paul Verlaine - Il pleure dans mon coeur

heart

Go, nothing is better for the soul
Than to dispel some sadness from a soul!”
Paul Verlaine - Ecoutez la chanson bien douce

soul

The long sobs
Of the violins
Of autumn
Hurt my heart
With a monotonous
Languor”
Paul Verlaine

The art, my children, it is to be absolutely oneself.”
Paul Verlaine

And so I leave
On cruel winds
Squalling
And gusting me
Like a dead leaf
Falling.”
Paul Verlaine

wind

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