Charles Baudelaire Quotes
A French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, artcritic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.
(1821 - 1867)
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
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A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
[Happiness]
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
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Always be a poet, even in prose.
[Poetry]
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
[Poetry]
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.
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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
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As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melanchol - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work.
[Work]
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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
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Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
[Beauty]
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But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.
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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.
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Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
[Work]
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Everything for me becomes allegory.
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
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