I had someone tell me that their favorite philosopher was Charles Baudelaire one time and I still can't quite tell as to whether or not it offended or excited my intellect. I'm not entirely sure that they knew that Charles Baudelaire was a poet or that that should matter. Why shouldn't you think of Baudelaire as a philosopher?

I feel like poets often express what is sought in Philosophy better than philosophers do. Perhaps the medium is just too limiting and Philosophy should be written as experimental poetry.