Quotation by

Charles Baudelaire

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

Poetry

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Baudelaire is saying that while a person can physically survive without eating for a short time, they cannot go even that long without experiencing poetry or its emotional nourishment. He emphasizes that poetry is essential to human well-being in a way that is as vital as food, but on a spiritual or intellectual level.

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