The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
Charles BaudelaireThere are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.
Charles BaudelaireRomanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.
Charles Baudelaire