Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

“I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.”

“Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.”

“Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.”

“Nature can counsel nothing but crime.”

“The beautiful is always bizarre.”

“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.”

“Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if were indifferent to whether we win or lose?”

“Inspiration comes of working every day.”

“And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!”

“L'tude du beau est un duel o l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'tre vaincu.”

“Music fathoms the sky.”

“Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul,that soft summer morninground a turning in the path,the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones,its legs in the air like a woman in needburning i...”

“My love, do you recall the object which we saw,That fair, sweet, summer morn!At a turn in the path a foul carcassOn a gravel strewn bed,Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman,Burning and ...”

“It's time, Old Captain, lift anchor, sink!The land rots; we shall sail into the night;if now the sky and sea are black as inkour hearts, as you must know, are filled with light.Only when we drink p...”

“On peut chercher dans Dieu le complice et l'ami qui manquent toujours. Dieu est l'ternel confident dans cette tragdie dont chacun est le hros.”

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“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

“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.”

“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 literary qualiti...”

“With heart at rest I climbed the citadel'sSteep height, and saw the city as from a tower,Hospital, brothel, prison, and such hells,Where evil comes up softly like a flower.Thou knowest, O Satan, pa...”