Charles Baudelaire

Quotes

• “Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal an...”
• “To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infini...”
• “One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chos...”
• “What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with inno...”
• “Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the imm...”
• “A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
• “Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?”
• “And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!”
• “I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.”
• “If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.”
• “Inspiration comes of working every day.”
• “Always be a poet, even in prose.”
• “The beautiful is always bizarre.”