The Walking Man...

I have seen the type you describe so well in this gentle write. I have 2 suggestions you might think on :
L-7 I wonder what your thoughts might be
L-13 What would you say if I should question
....just a coupla alternatives.....................scribbler

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
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Always be a poet, even in prose.
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.
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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
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Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
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But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.
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Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
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Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
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Everything for me becomes allegory.
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
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Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

heehee, all said by Charles Baudelaire, the French poet, who coined the term "flaneur" as "a person who walks the city in order to experience it". Which could make an interesting alternative title "The Flaneur"

Just ask the bugger, the worst that can happen is he goes psycho and shoots you.

Thanks for sharing your curiosity. In fact, that might be part of a different title, not that you need one.
I get the picture of the man walking and that is how I usually judge the value of a poem, if I get the picture, it is a good poem.

You made me want to meet this dude.
Did you ever stop and talk to him?
Quite a character.
Thx for sharing.