Charles Baudelaire Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)
Charles Baudelaire quotes and sayings page 8 (deceased poet born on Apr 9, 1821). Here's quote # 71 through 80 out of the 88 we have for him.
“In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.”
“Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.”
“Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.”
“The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.”
“In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.”
“The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.”
“France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.”
“The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.”
“Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.”
“To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.”
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