Quotes by : Charles Baudelaire

Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry of....

I walk alone, absorbed in my fantastic play, — Fencing with rhymes, which, parrying nimbly, back away;....

Any healthy man can go without food for two days--but not without poetry.

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use....

To be away from home and yet find oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of....

Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins,that best and purest essence....

I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.

We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.

I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating....