Active Quote by Charles Baudelaire

Solitude is an essential element of poetry.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

He is the poet of solitude.

— Richard L Coe

“Solitude favors the original, the daringly and otherworldly beautiful, the poem. But it also favors the wrongful, the extreme, the absurd, and the forbidden.”

— Thomas Mann

“The observations and encounters of a man of solitude and few words are at once more nebulous and more intense than those of a…

— Thomas Mann

Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes.

— William Goyen

The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

“A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than…

— Thomas Mann

One must love a poet on its own terms.

— Paul Gray

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

— Charles Dickens

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite:…

— Thomas Mann