Baudelaire said something like that (about the sonnet): "Parce que la forme est contraignante, l'idée jaillit plus intense" (poor translation: "because the form

Baudelaire said something like that (about the sonnet): "Parce que la forme est contraignante, l'idée jaillit plus intense" (poor translation: "because the form is constraining, the idea comes out more intense")