Best Charles Baudelaire Wisdom
- My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass On… Air
- Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths… Agony
- You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed. Beauty
- La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté Luxe, calme et volupté There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and pleasure. Beaut
- The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality. Appetite
- One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk. All
- In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times. Ancient
- In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On… Bruise
- Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means… Absence
- Remembering is only a new form of suffering. Form
- Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as… Breathe
- The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He… Among
- He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window. Closed
- 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… Amassed
- Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will. Allegory
- Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental… Abnormal
- A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would… All
- What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight? Damnation
- Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose? Charm
- What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters. All
- Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might… Alone
- With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk. Choose
- We revel in the laxness of the path we take. Funny
- Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of… All
- I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed. Cemetery
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