Charles Baudelaire Quotes

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

Time, Poetry, Drunk

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
Charles Baudelaire

Love, Music, Trying

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
Charles Baudelaire

Beauty, Melancholy, Conceive

The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
Charles Baudelaire

Life, Everything, Living

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Charles Baudelaire

Luck, Universal, Understood

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Charles Baudelaire

Beautiful, Everything, Reason

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

Time, Poetry, Drunk

Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire

Poetry, Poet, Prose

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
Charles Baudelaire

Him, Suffering, Once

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Charles Baudelaire

Book, Company, Party

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
Charles Baudelaire

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
Charles Baudelaire

Beauty, Time, Him

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
Charles Baudelaire

Dreams, True, Reality

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
Charles Baudelaire

Poetry, Food, Two

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
Charles Baudelaire

Men, Women, Best

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
Charles Baudelaire

Old, Memories, Thousand

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
Charles Baudelaire

Beauty, Perfect, Difficult

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

Respect, Soldier, Three

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
Charles Baudelaire

Art, Evil, Effort

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
Charles Baudelaire

Language, Practice, Handle

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
Charles Baudelaire

Love, Women, Men

Genius is childhood recalled at will.
Charles Baudelaire

Genius, Childhood, Recalled

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
Charles Baudelaire

Pleasure, Terror, Hysteria

Inspiration comes of working every day.
Charles Baudelaire

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
Charles Baudelaire

Wife, Wine, Sweetheart

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Poet

Born: April 9, 1821

Died: August 31, 1867

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