Charles Baudelaire

"Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry. "

"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. "

"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. "

"It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten. "

"There exist only three beings worthy of respect the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. "

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