Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire; April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 April 1821
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
running dream strong
To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.
men hands honor
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
believe men suffering
This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.
dance ballet-class dancing
Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
drinking wine drunk
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.
writing poetry literature
Always be a poet, even in prose.
beauty doe different
All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.
literature amusing providing
Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
winning games what-if
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
god order reign
God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.
ingredients strangeness
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
perseverance done literature
Nothing can be done except little by little.
dancing merit mysterious
Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music
art mean color
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.