Baudelaire Quote by Charles Baudelaire Download Open image “To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.” — Charles Baudelaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Baudelaire Handle Kind Language Practice Sorcery
There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“[S]elf-assurance, motivation, and a good method play a much more important role in language learning than the vague concept of innate ability, and that… — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work. Language and usage evolve over time:… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Language does have the power to change reality. Therefore, treat your words as the mighty instruments they are - to heal, to bring into… — Daphne Rose Kingma Copy Share Image
I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“The gifts of fate come with a price. For those who have been favored by life’s indulgence, rigorous respect in matters of beauty is… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible. — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all. — Max Barry 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
Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake, and Baudelaire… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics of mass culture ridicule the protest against Bach as background music in the kitchen, against Plato and Hegel,… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
In the time since the Baudelaire parents' death, most of the Baudelaire orphans' friends had fallen by the wayside, an expression wich here means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and… — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
I think it's basically quite different from dreams. If only cinema was that easy. Because dreams, all you have to do is fall asleep,… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
...then he looked at my T-shirt and saw Byron's picture on it and he quoted "She Walks in Beauty," which is like my favorite… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
