Paul-Jean Toulet

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

Coples

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


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


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


 * 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.