Quote by Charles Baudelaire
The poet is like the prince of cloudsWho haunts the tempest an

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

Other quotes by Charles Baudelaire

To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons. – Charles Baudelaire

Category:
Criticism
Read Quote

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. – Charles Baudelaire

Category:
Beauty
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry. – Andrew Motion

Category:
Poetry

Its bad poetry executed by people that cant sing. Thats my definition of Rap. – Peter Steele

Category:
Poetry

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. – Walter Pater

Category:
Poetry

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men. – Giorgos Seferis

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

Given the daunting challenges that we face, its important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one. – Valerie Jarrett

Category:
power

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. – Sigmund Freud

Category:
Dreams

I am, as Ive said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. – Billy Joel

Category:
Age

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. – Robert Frost

Category:
Love