This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“It is this admirable, this immortal, instinctive sense of beauty that leads us to look upon the spectacle of this world as… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Nature is a temple in which living pillars Sometimes give voice to confused words;” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, in the expansiveness of her joy, the Moon filled all of the room like a phosphoric atmosphere, like a luminous poison;… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“The crowd is his element, as the air is that of birds and water of fishes. His passion and his profession are… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”—Charles Baudelaire “The second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“This life is a hospital in which each patient is possessed by the desire to change beds. One wants to suffer in front of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
