Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."
97 Quotes
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."
Charles Baudelaire Les Fleurs du Mal
"Inspiration comes of working every day."
Charles Baudelaire
"I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination."
Charles Baudelaire
"He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!"
Charles Baudelaire
"If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist."
Charles Baudelaire
"Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days … the region of pure poetry."
Charles Baudelaire Intimate Journals
"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."
Charles Baudelaire
"Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed."
Charles Baudelaire BAUDELAIRE - the Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
"Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art."
Charles Baudelaire
"“My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.”"
Charles Baudelaire Les Fleurs du Mal
"The beautiful is always bizarre."
Charles Baudelaire
"“Always be a poet, even in prose.”"
Charles Baudelaire
"France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic."
Charles Baudelaire
"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."
Charles Baudelaire
"Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry."
Charles Baudelaire
"It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."
Charles Baudelaire
"Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art."
Charles Baudelaire
"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."
Charles Baudelaire
"Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected."
Charles Baudelaire
"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."
Charles Baudelaire
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