More From Charles Baudelaire
- "Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them."
- "Our religion is itself profoundly sad – a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man’s own language – so long as he knows anguish and is a painter."
- "There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create."
More In Poetry
- "Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe."― Adrienne Rich
- "Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others."― Antonin Artaud
- "Prose talks and poetry sings."― Franz Grillparzer