Quote by Charles Baudelaire
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. – Charles Baudelaire

Other quotes by Charles Baudelaire

As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning,…then they fall down the curtains. – Charles Baudelaire

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Culture
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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

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Poetry
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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse. – John Ciardi

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. – Jane Austen

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast. – Italian Proverb

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Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. – William Butler Yeats

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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had. – J. K. Rowling

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