Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
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
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man.… — 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
Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them. — 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
