Paul Verlaine, »Art poétique«, in: French Symbolist Poetry., (ed.) Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1958)

»You must have music first of all / and for that a rhythm uneven is best, / vague in the air and soluble, / with nothing heavy and nothing at rest«

@incollection{Verlaine.1958,
 author = {Verlaine, Paul},
 title = {Art poétique},
 publisher = {University of California Press},
 isbn = {9780520007840},
 editor = {MacIntyre, Carlyle Ferren},
 booktitle = {French Symbolist Poetry.},
 year = {1958},
 address = {Berkeley}
}