Charles Baudelaire Poetry Quotes

What did Charles Baudelaire say about Poetry?

Charles Baudelaire has written many quotes about Poetry. E.g.,

• Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
• 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.
• Always be a poet, even in prose.

What are the top most famous Poetry quotes by Charles Baudelaire?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Poetry by Charles Baudelaire.

• Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
• 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.
• Always be a poet, even in prose.
• It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
• 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.
• Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
• 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.