Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul. – Charles Baudelaire
There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite. – Charles Baudelaire

Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul. – Charles Baudelaire
There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite. – Charles Baudelaire
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. – Charles Baudelaire
The poet is like the prince of clouds
Who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer;
Exiled on the ground in the midst of jeers,
His giant wings prevent him from walking. – Charles Baudelaire
Dear to us are those who love us… but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances. – Ralph Waldo Emerson