Paul VerlaineIl pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville.
About This Quote
In the original French, this quote is a direct translation of the English, “It rains in my heart as it rains on the city.” The person who wrote this poem has been interpreted as being from an upper-class family from a well-to-do region, and what they observed was a much poorer region around them. It is not clear whether they were sad for their own city or were just lonely. The poem is often interpreted as a person seeing that there is a much bigger world out there, and that no matter how bad things look, they can always see hope. They could also interpret it as a person contemplating how life can be full of beauty despite bad conditions.
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