"It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."
― Charles Baudelaire
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Poetry
― Charles Baudelaire
More From Charles Baudelaire
- "Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable."
- "I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws."
- "Music fathoms the sky."
More In Poetry
- "In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry."― Danielle Steel
- "Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women’s voices regarding their own health care."― Sandra Fluke
- "I think that it’s more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction."― Robert Morgan