"Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin……" — Charles Baudelaire
"Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices."
—
Charles Baudelaire
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
266 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire has 266 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk…
-
Nothing can be done except little by little.
-
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
-
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a…
-
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
-
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never…
-
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures,…
-
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new…
-
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
-
The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
-
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
See all 266 quotes by Charles Baudelaire »
More Ashes Quotes
This quote is filed under Ashes Quotes,
one of 540 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's…
— Michele Bachmann
-
It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise…
— Anne Baxter
-
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
— Thomas Browne
-
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
— Leonard Cohen
-
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the…
— Marcus Aurelius
-
There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
-
Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm…
— Pablo Neruda
-
Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will…
— George W. Bush
-
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and…
— Miguel de Cervantes
-
A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow…
— Tennessee Williams
-
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
— Martial
-
When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle…
— Samuel Rutherford
See all 540 Ashes Quotes »