Quotes by Baudelaire, Charles

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equippe >>

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation >>

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses up >>

Quotations about Poetry and Poets

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach t >>

A person born with an instinct for poverty. >>

As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one' >>

Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.

Baudelaire, Charles