The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire

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If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it...

If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it...

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to...

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to...

Music fathoms the sky.

Music fathoms the sky.

Death, old captain, it is time, let us raise anchor!

Death, old captain, it is time, let us raise anchor!

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you...

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you...

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense...

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense...

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of...

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of...

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you...

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you...

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important...

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important...

What is art? Prostitution.

What is art? Prostitution.

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical...

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical...

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in...

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in...

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the...

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the...

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of...

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of...