"If the poet has pursued a moral objective,……" — Charles Baudelaire
"If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force."
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Charles Baudelaire
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266 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire has 266 quotes on this site.
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It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk…
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Nothing can be done except little by little.
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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a…
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Always be a poet, even in prose.
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Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never…
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures,…
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How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new…
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
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The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
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