Charles Baudelaire Quotes
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The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
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Everything for me becomes allegory.
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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
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Être un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux.
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
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J'ai toujours été étonné qu'on laissât les femmes entrer dans les églises. Quelle conversation peuvent-elles avoir avec Dieu?
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
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Il y a dans tout homme, à toute heure, deux postulations simultanées, l'une vers Dieu, l'autre vers Satan.
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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
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Swarming city, city full of dreams, Where the ghosts in broad daylight hang up the passers-by!
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To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
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There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
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Plus l'homme cultive les arts, moins il bande.
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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
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Le génie n'est que l'enfance retrouvée à volonté, l'enfance douée maintenant, pour s'exprimer, d'organes virils et de l'esprit analytique qui lui permet d'ordonner la somme de matériaux involontairement amassée.
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There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.
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The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
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Soon we shall plunge into the cold darkness; Farewell, vivid brightness of our short-lived summers!
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Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
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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.