There exist only three beings worthy of respect he priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
Source: In Shorter Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, by John Bartlett, 1937, 1980, 1992.
-- Charles Baudelaire, (Apr 9 1821-1867), French poet, critic, translator; He was noted for his powerful expressionistic poetry and translation of the tales of Edgar Allan Poe.