Quote by Charles Baudelaire
France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror

France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic. – Charles Baudelaire

Other quotes by Charles Baudelaire

There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them. – Charles Baudelaire

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Thought
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I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me. – Charles Baudelaire

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Madness
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Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art. – Charles Baudelaire

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Poetry
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But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry. – John Drinkwater

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Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is. – James Broughton

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Poetry

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry. – Eugenio Montale

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Poetry

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. – Peter Davison

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