Charles-baudelaire Quote by Henry James

“Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we are not…

— Roberto Calasso

“Why did Baudelaire — why does anyone — write poetry, in the teeth of all the evidence that one wants you to do so?…

— Walter Martin

Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this…

— John Cusack

“I can see prose has taken an unfortunate turn toward utility in the past century,” he said with obvious regret. “I’m afraid Poe and…

— D. Nathan Hilliard

“Poe would certainly have applauded Walter Pater’s assertion that ‘all art continuously aspires to the condition of music’ – to that ideally abstract medium…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.

— Arthur Twining Hadley

“Wherever poesie can be felt, all poetic touches are superfluous.”

— Robert Walser

“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes…

— Plato

“Recall what used to be the theme of poetry in the romantic era. In neat verses the poet lets us share his private, bourgeois…

— José Ortega y Gasset

“Many are poets, but without the name; For what is Poesy but to create From overfeeling Good or Ill; and aim At an external…

— George Gordon Byron

“He clasped his hands to his ears as if he would tear his very brain out!" A sample line from Shadow my psychological/horror compared…

— C.S. Dixon

Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning poers must…

— Flora Thompson