Charles Baudelaire Quotes (19 quotations)
1. A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. - Charles Baudelaire
2. A breath of wind from the wings of madness. - Charles Baudelaire
3. Always be a poet, even in prose. - Charles Baudelaire
4. Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. - Charles Baudelaire
5. Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. - Charles Baudelaire
6. 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
7. I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. - Charles Baudelaire
8. I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. - Charles Baudelaire
9. 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 claws. - Charles Baudelaire
10. 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
11. Inspiration comes of working every day. - Charles Baudelaire
12. It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. - Charles Baudelaire
13. It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. - Charles Baudelaire
14. It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist. - Charles Baudelaire
15. 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
16. The world only goes round by misunderstanding. - Charles Baudelaire
17. There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. - Charles Baudelaire
18. There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. - Charles Baudelaire
19. 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
2. A breath of wind from the wings of madness. - Charles Baudelaire
3. Always be a poet, even in prose. - Charles Baudelaire
4. Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. - Charles Baudelaire
5. Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. - Charles Baudelaire
6. 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
7. I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. - Charles Baudelaire
8. I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. - Charles Baudelaire
9. 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 claws. - Charles Baudelaire
10. 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
11. Inspiration comes of working every day. - Charles Baudelaire
12. It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. - Charles Baudelaire
13. It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. - Charles Baudelaire
14. It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist. - Charles Baudelaire
15. 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
16. The world only goes round by misunderstanding. - Charles Baudelaire
17. There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. - Charles Baudelaire
18. There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. - Charles Baudelaire
19. 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
