Quotes Tagged With :baudelaire

If rape or arson, poison or the knifeHas wove no pleasing patterns in the stuffOf this drab canvas we....

Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed....

The beautiful is always bizarre.

Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended.....

He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself....

I also think of those daily slaughters along the highways, of that death that is as horrible as it is....

I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate....

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

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