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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

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In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. – Charles Baudelaire

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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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As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work. – Charles Baudelaire

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Poetry lies its way to the truth. – John Ciardi

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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in the darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that its timeless, that it reaches back. – Robert Morgan

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