Charles Baudelaire Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Running, Dream, Strong

• Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Attitude, Sleep

• Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Reality, Common Sense

• Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural or artificial - you must first have the courage to swallow it; and those who perhaps most merit happiness are precisely those on whom felicity, as mortals conceive it, always acts as a vomitive.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Reality, Fleeting

  Charles Baudelaire (1996). “Artificial Paradises”, Citadel Press

• There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Baby, Doe

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “La Fanfarlo”

• Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme, supple and staccato enough to adapt to the lyrical stirrings of the soul, the undulations of dreams, and sudden leaps of consciousness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Ambition, Miracle

• Certes, je sortirai quant a' moi satisfait D'un monde o u' l'action n'est pas la soeur du re" ve. Indeed, for my part, I shall be happy to leave A world where action is not sister to the dream.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, World, Action

  1857 Les Fleurs du mal,'Le Reniement de Saint-Pierre'.

• Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the irresistible effect - to intoxicate, or overwhelm. They looked to analysis to provide them with the keyboard on which to play, with certainty, on man's emotions, and they sought in abstract meditation they key to sure and certain action upon their subject - man's nervous and psychic being.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Mean, Men

  "Degas, Manet, Morisot". Book by Paul Valéry, 1989.

• Immediate work, even poor, is worth more than dreams.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Work, Poor

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

• The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Soul, Ambitious

  Charles Baudelaire (1925). “Les fleurs de mal: Petits poèmes en prose, Les paradis artificiels”

• Everything, alas, is an abyss, — actions, desires, dreams, words!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Desire, Action

  "Le Gouffre". Poem by Charles Baudelaire, 1862.

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