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Charles Baudelaire

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Biography - Charles Baudelaire:

French poet.
Born: 1821 - Died: 1867
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

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.



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Quotes for: music


Quotes

Quotes about music:


Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.





Without music, life would be a mistake.





Music before all else.





Architecture in general is frozen music.





Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.





If music be the food of love, play on.











Quotes for: poetry


Quotes

Quotes about poetry:


Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.





Why should poetry have to make sense?





Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.





Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Poesy dissolves foreign being into our own.





Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.











Quotes for: dance


Quotes

Quotes for: dance


The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.





Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.





He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”





One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.





I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'





The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.











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Charles Baudelaire also said...


There are moments in life when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence immeasurably increased.





There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.





I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.





Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.





There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.





Music fathoms the sky.












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