41 quotes by Charles Baudelaire

“The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“Music fathoms the sky.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“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.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“Always be a poet, even in prose.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“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

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“France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“What is art? Prostitution.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.” — Charles Baudelaire

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