A Quote by Charles Baudelaire

Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.

Charles Baudelaire

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Charles Baudelaire
French - Poet
April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867

Most economists use 'fixed' and 'pegged' as interchangeable or nearly interchangeable terms for exchange rates.

Steve Hanke

Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short and robust answer is, 'Certainly not.'

Tom Paulin

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself.

George Herbert

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents; in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight; and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.

Victor Hugo

To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms; a convention is a mob meeting on equal terms; a course is an elite instructing a mob; and a colloquium is a group capable of considering all these phenomena.

Malcolm Bradbury

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.

George Herbert

If the multitude is possessed of the balance of real estate, the multitude will have the balance of power, and in that case the multitude will take care of the liberty, virtue, and interest of the multitude in all acts of government.

John Adams

I'm not that prolific in terms of making my own music.

El-P

Photos should suggest a word(s) and vice versa. They should be equal and interchangeable.

John Baldessari

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

Donald Hall

A proper respect for female difference is one of the great civilizing disciplines; a society that truly treated males and females as equal, interchangeable parts would be not worth living in.

Heather Mac Donald

Ryan Murphy is a genius. In terms of television, very few have been as prolific.

Glen Powell

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.