Poems by Paul Verlaine – we find the Selected Poems at 7100 on The Greatest Books of All Time site and The One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine even lower on that page, nonetheless, they are among my favorites…you have thousands of reviews on magnum opera from the GOAT and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel

 

Poems by Paul Verlaine – we find the Selected Poems at 7100 on The Greatest Books of All Time site and The One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine even lower on that page, nonetheless, they are among my favorites…you have thousands of reviews on magnum opera from the GOAT and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel

 

10 out of 10

 

‘Words create worlds’ https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/happier-by-tal-ben-shahar.html I don’t know the source of the original quote, but I have heard this in the YouTube videos of the most popular courses at Harvard, which you could, maybe should access for free, Positive Psychology from the wondrous Tal Ben Shahar

 

Paul Verlaine is nec plus ultra for yours truly, who has learned three of these masterpieces by heart, decades ago, and then enjoyed them ever since, even during…swimming, I used to take laps for about half an hour, and ‘entertained the time with thoughts of love’, it could be boring, just looking at the floor of the pool

However, the above line is from The Sonnets https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-sonnets-by-shakespeare-is-supposed.html of William Shakespeare, ranked 652nd on The Greatest Books of All time, whereas The Selected Poems are just 7100th, for the under signed, there is no difference, both are spectacular

 

I wonder how they are perceived today: ‘brule aux yeux des femmes’ is this sexist, acceptable today? It is not just that for me, but ravishing, scintillating, I mean the whole thing, and especially: ‘Tu refleuriras Dans un élysée! Ame méprisée. Tu rayonneras!’ such a majestic, uplifting message, you will flower in a garden, and shine

https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/selections-from-canzoniere-and-other.html Petrarca is another divine poet, and I used them both for my swimming, but also the past relationships, the present one is beyond redemption, if I tried, I think I would hear again that I should be hospitalized, or institutionalized, taken to a hospice anyway

 

then there is ‘Dans des gloires calmes, Au vent pur des palmes, Sur l'aile du ciel!’ or else the crème de la crème, it sounds fantastic, this is an accurate descrition of heaven on earth, in the wind of the palm trees, in ‘calm glories’, and you also have another poem, venerating the beloved, and more generally, das ewig weibliche

https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/faust-by-johann-wolfgang-goethe-das.html which is from Goethe, and it was translated, or better said adapted as ‘the eternal feminine is bringing us to heaven’, something like that, in my language, it does not really work, when taken from one language, and then to a third one…

 

“Cuisses belles, seins redressants, Le dos, les reins, le ventre, fête, Pour les yeux et les mains en quête Et pour la bouche et tous les sens” this is As Good as It Gets https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-few-good-men-directed-by-late.html but there is more, for another note on Verlaine, if possible, or Insha’Allah

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