More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, & which life reveals is the most living proof of our immortality.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
But what does it matter what reality is outside myself, so long as it has helped me to live, to feel that I am, and what I am?
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
