Being pre-eminently a moralist, he needed a medium that enabled him to illustrate a moral insight as briefly and vividly as possible. Being an artist and sensualist, he needed a medium that was epigrammatic or aphoristic, but allowed him scope for fantasy and for that element of suggestiveness which he considered essential to beauty.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Being pre-eminently a moralist, he needed a medium that enabled him to illustrate a moral insight as briefly and vividly as possible. Being an artist and sensualist, he needed a medium that was epigrammatic or aphoristic, but allowed him scope for fantasy and for that element of suggestiveness which he considered essential to beauty." in the context of "Michael Hamburger, Introduction to his translation, Twenty Prose Poems by Charles Baudelaire (1946; rev. ed. 1988)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.