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Charles Baudelaire

"France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic."

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"France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic."

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"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

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"Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad."

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"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"

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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."

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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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