Always be a poet, even in prose. – Charles Baudelaire, “My Heart Laid Bare,” Intimate Journals, 1864

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[Man] asks from prose, only under a more obscure and indefinite form, what he expects from poetry; and indeed, where is the actual boundary between poetry and prose? and how can one help owning that prose is but poetry gradually but never entirely extinguished or calmed down? – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)
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