"The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, & even, be it said,
to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom, but especially by whom, artist & poets compose their most delicate jewels;
from whom flow the most enervating pleasures & the most enriching sufferings...
Woman...
in a word...
is not, for the artist in general, only the female of the human species.
She is rather
A Divinity...A Star.
-Charles Baudelaire
