More From Charles Baudelaire
- "It is from the womb of art that criticism was born."
- "I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial."
- "Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste."
More In Poetry
- "To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed."― Brian Harris
- "Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values."― A. R. Ammons
- "Poetry is composing for the breath."― Peter Davison