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Charles Baudelaire

France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

Charles Baudelaire

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Baudelaire suggests that France as a culture does not naturally embrace or appreciate the beauty and emotion typically found in poetry. Instead, French readers tend to favor poets whose writing is straightforward and practical, rather than imaginative or lyrical.

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