Paul Verlaine
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"House of Verlaine", Verlaine's birthplace in Metz, today a museum dedicated to the poet's life and artworks

"Paul-Marie Verlaine" was a French poet associated with the Symbolism (arts)/Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.

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Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air...

Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.