573 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

Nature can counsel nothing but crime.

Ant swarming CityCity full of dreamsWhere in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve

He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.

By a fatal law, a genius is always an idiot.

Looking from outside into an open window one never sees as much as when one looks through a closed window. There is nothing more profound, more mysterious, more pregnant, more insidious, more dazzling than a window lighted by a single candle. What one can see out in the sunlight is always less interesting than what goes on behind a windowpane. In that black or luminous square life lives, life dreams, life suffers.

Romanticism is a grace, celestial or infernal, that bestows us eternal stigmata.

Es hermosa y más que hermosa: es sorprendente. Lo negro en ella abunda; y es nocturno y profundo cuanto inspira. Sus ojos son de astros en que centellea vagamente el misterio, y su mirada ilumina como el relámpago: es una explosión en las tinieblas.

In certain almost supernatural states of mind, the profundity of life is revealed in its entirety in the spectacle, common as it may be, that we have before our eyes. It becomes the symbol of it.

La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliersLaissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles ;L'homme y passe à travers des forêts de symbolesQui l'observent avec des regards familiers.