573 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

"Or poking through a house, in closets shut for years,Full of the scent of time - acrid, musky, dank,One comes, perhaps, upon a flask of memoriesIn whose escaping scent a soul returns to life.- The Flask"

"Nous avons, il est vrai, nations corrompues,Aux peuples anciens des beautés incomnues.."

"Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins,that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in spirit for divine delights!"

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

"We revel in the laxness of the path we take."

"For I desire the dark, the naked, and the lone."

"Flesh is willing, but the Soul requiresSisyphean patience for its song,Time, Hippocrates remarked, is shortand Art is long."

"Le Poëte est semblable au prince des nuéesQui hante la tempête et se rit de l'archer;Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées,Ses ailes de géant l'empêchent de marcher."

"—Hypocrite lecteur,—mon semblable,—mon frère!"

"Nature can counsel nothing but crime."