Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire; April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 April 1821
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
condiments indispensable strangeness
Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.
space profound moments
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
civilization tables sin
Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.
best-love love-is crime
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
dream attitude sleep
Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.
inspire desire conquer
There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.
moon cemetery
I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.
giving imagination pastures
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.
running procrastination risk
In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.
firsts ifs
If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.
pleasure
I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.
crush beer earth
Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.
wine virtue drink
Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.
art passion art-is
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.