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Paul-Jean Toulet Quotes

d. 1920 France

Paul-Jean Toulet (1867–1920) was a French poet. He is famous for a book of verse, Les Contrerimes.

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Benáres, that name is full of odours which have fled.
By thy shores I saw the smoke from the pyres of three dead.

A mops thinks 'I commited heresy'. But did it?
To be a heretic, you have to know the Spirit.

Pick me up, o stranger, it is no sin, so lovely is my smell.
Violet's a smile of those who in their graves now dwell.

We loved each other. No faithfulness my love did lack.
Love, you divine flame; you hole of colour: black.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Paul-Jean Toulet (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.