L'Art Romantique, ch. 28 "Théophile Gautier," sec. 3 (1868) [tr. Gilman (1958)] - Baudelaire, Charles | WIST Quotations
There is in the word, in the logos, something sacred which forbids us to gamble with it. To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. [Il y a dans le mot, dans le verbe, quelque chose de sacré qui nous défend d'en faire un jeu…
