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

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The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find. – Charles Baudelaire

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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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You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just dont realize it. – Sherman Alexie

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My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. – Wilfred Owen

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Poetry is creative; to be a poet is to remake the universe. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. – John Ashbery

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