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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

Charles Baudelaire

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

Charles Baudelaire

Bed French Poet

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

Charles Baudelaire

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Charles Baudelaire

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Charles Baudelaire

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

Charles Baudelaire

Civilization Sin

I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.

Charles Baudelaire

All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory / of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory / of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Charles Baudelaire

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses

Charles Baudelaire

The world only goes round by misunderstanding. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Charles Baudelaire

If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.

Charles Baudelaire

The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.

Charles Baudelaire

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Charles Baudelaire

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. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

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.

Charles Baudelaire

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

Charles Baudelaire

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

Charles Baudelaire

As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning, . . . [then] they fall down the curtains. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning, . . . [then] they fall down the curtains.

Charles Baudelaire

Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetry - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetry

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 Quotes

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

Art

Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetry - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetry

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 Quotes

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

Art

The cannon thunders - limbs fly in all directions - one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice - it's Humanity in search of happiness - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

The cannon thunders - limbs fly in all directions - one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice - it's Humanity in search of happiness

Charles Baudelaire

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Charles Baudelaire

There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.

Charles Baudelaire

Music fathoms the sky. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Music fathoms the sky.

Charles Baudelaire

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art

Charles Baudelaire

Art

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Charles Baudelaire

American Environmentalist

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

Charles Baudelaire

French Poet Memories

Hypocritical reader, my double, my brother! - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Hypocritical reader, my double, my brother!

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 Quotes

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Charles Baudelaire

Art French Poet

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Charles Baudelaire

Art French Poet

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its paws - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its paws

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 Quotes

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

Childhood Genius

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Charles Baudelaire

There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.

Charles Baudelaire

Action Contemplation

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself

Charles Baudelaire

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle

Charles Baudelaire

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

Charles Baudelaire

If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.

Charles Baudelaire

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Charles Baudelaire

Beauty French Poet

Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of ou - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of ou

Charles Baudelaire

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. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

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.

Charles Baudelaire

Always be a poet, even in prose. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Charles Baudelaire

French Poet Poet

For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.

Charles Baudelaire

Travel And Tourism

A breath of wind from the wings of madness. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

Charles Baudelaire

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.

Charles Baudelaire

Inspiration comes of working every day. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Charles Baudelaire

Determination French Poet

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings / woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings / woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

Charles Baudelaire

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

Charles Baudelaire

One must astonish the bourgeois. - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

One must astonish the bourgeois.

Charles Baudelaire

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