Baudelaire Quote by Gaston Bachelard

In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be, before…

— Charles Baudelaire

“I think I would be happy in that place I happen not to be, and this question of moving house is the subject of…

— Bruce Chatwin

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

(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

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

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

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

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

Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.

— Anonymous

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

“They tried picturing leaving Uncle Monty and living by themselves, trying to find jobs and take care of each other. It was a very…

— Lemony Snicket

“The heart contains passion but the imagination alone contains poetry,’ says Charles Baudelaire. This too was the lesson that Theophile Gautier, most subtle of…

— Oscar Wilde