Charles Baudelaire Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

“It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.”

“Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!”

“Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.”

“The world only goes round by misunderstanding.”

“An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.”

“The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.”

“We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.”

“To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.”

“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.”