573 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, all its poetry and all its charity, to the unexpected as it comes along, to the stranger as he passes.

The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.

La' , tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute , Luxe, calme et volupte . There where all is order and beauty. Lush, calm and voluptuous.

Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

Amer savoir, celui qu’on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.