Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.
CHARLES BAUDELAIREMultitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.
CHARLES BAUDELAIREEverything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.
CHARLES BAUDELAIREA silent mouth is sweet to hear.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRELa volupte unique et supre” me de l’amour g|”t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil.
CHARLES BAUDELAIREThe 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 BAUDELAIRENations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
CHARLES BAUDELAIREWhat is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
CHARLES BAUDELAIREThrough the Unknown, we’ll find the New
CHARLES BAUDELAIREThat which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.
CHARLES BAUDELAIREThe poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
CHARLES BAUDELAIREMy soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
CHARLES BAUDELAIREWhat is love? The need of coming out of one’s self.
CHARLES BAUDELAIREModernity 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 BAUDELAIREIt is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
CHARLES BAUDELAIREThe immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
CHARLES BAUDELAIREI 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 claws.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE