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Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Charles Baudelaire quotes

French Poet, Critic April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867

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Charles Baudelaire quote: "Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not..."
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. Charles Baudelaire
Abolishers of the soul (materialists) are necessarily abolishers of hell, they, certainly, are interested. At all events, they are people who fear to live again--lazy people. Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire quote: "There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest,..."
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. Charles Baudelaire
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire quote: "It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance"
It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance 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
Charles Baudelaire quote: "Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. Charles Baudelaire
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire quote: "It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the..."
It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner. Charles Baudelaire
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 I hear that I am damned. Charles Baudelaire
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 enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire quote: "Fruit free of any bruises, not yet broken open, / With flesh..."
Fruit free of any bruises, not yet broken open, / With flesh so firm and smooth, it cried out to be eaten! Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire quote: "It is from the womb of art that criticism was born."
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire quote: "To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of..."
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. Charles Baudelaire
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. Charles Baudelaire

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