Quotation by

Charles Baudelaire

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

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Baudelaire is saying that while a person can survive physically without eating for a short time, they cannot live without the emotional or spiritual nourishment that poetry provides. He emphasizes that poetry is essential to human well-being in a way that food alone cannot satisfy.

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