Quote of Paul Verlaine - Go, nothing is better for the...

Biography - Paul Verlaine:

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

Source: Ecoutez la chanson bien douce

Quote

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

soul

Translation

(German, French)

Nichts tut der Seele besser, als jemandem seine Traurigkeit abzunehmen.”
Paul Verlaine - Ecoutez la chanson bien douce

Allez, rien n'est meilleur à l'âme
Que de faire une âme moins triste !”
Paul Verlaine - Ecoutez la chanson bien douce

Quotes about soul:

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.”
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
Augustine of Hippo

They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea.”
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”
Edvard Munch

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
Aristotle

All about soul...

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

Music before all else.”
Paul Verlaine - Art Poétique

music

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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