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Quotes from L'art romantique — Charles Baudelaire

1821–1867 France

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There is in the word, in the logos, something sacred which forbids us to gamble with it. To handle a language skilfuly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

L'art romantique (1869)

All great poets become naturally, fatally, critics.

L'art romantique (1869)

Progress, that great heresy of degenerates.

L'art romantique (1869)

An artist is only an artist thanks to his exquisite sense of beauty — a sense which provides him with intoxicating delights, but at the same time implying and including a sense, equally exquisite, of all deformity and disproportion.

L'art romantique (1869)

The Revolution had been made by voluptuaries.

L'art romantique (1869)

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