Childhood Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

8 Childhood quotes by Charles Baudelaire

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Charles Baudelaire’s thoughts on childhood are gathered in eight succinct statements. Though limited, the collection showcases his poetic melancholy and keen observation of youthful moments.

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Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

Charles Baudelaire

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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the…

Charles Baudelaire

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Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

Charles Baudelaire

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“Genius is childhood recovered at will.”

Charles Baudelaire

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A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

Charles Baudelaire

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Genius is childhood recalled at will.

Charles Baudelaire

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What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline,…

Charles Baudelaire

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Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.

Charles Baudelaire

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