French - Poet | April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
Charles Baudelaire
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
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The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
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It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
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Music fathoms the sky.
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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
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Everything for me becomes allegory.
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