The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
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On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.Charles Baudelaire
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
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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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If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.
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The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.
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Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
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