“And I'll stay away from Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.”

— Dorothy Parker

"The Little Hours" in Here Lies (1939); this plays on the title of the popular song "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows"; Paul Verlaine was Arthur Rimbaud's lover.

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American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893–1967

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