| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 5883 |
| QUOTATION: | Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Charles Baudelaire (18211867), French poet, critic. New Notes on Edgar Poe, part IV (1859). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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