573 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

In philosophical inquiry, the human spirit, imitating the movement of the stars, must follow a curve which brings it back to its point of departure. To conclude is to close a circle.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices.

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

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

I am swimming in dishonor like a fish in water.

If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!