Charles Baudelaire Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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  To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Mean, Color

  Charles Baudelaire (1995). “The Painters of Modern Life”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited

• Nothing can be done except little by little.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Perseverance, Done, Literature

  Charles Baudelaire (1956). “The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters”

• Always be a poet, even in prose.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Writing, Poetry, Literature

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.108, Courier Corporation

• The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Prayer, Sleep, Men

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.111, Courier Corporation

• I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Literature, Melancholy, Type

• 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.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspirational, Wine, Drunk

• If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Objectivity, Literature, Moral

• Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Children, Heart, Two

  "Baudelaire: a self portrait".

• How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Memories, Men, Suffering

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “La Fanfarlo”

• Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Literature

• For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Writing, Literature, Fifty

• Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Nature, Self, Voice

  Charles Baudelaire (1992). “Selected Writings on Art and Literature”, Penguin Classics

• Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Desire, Bed, Literature

  "The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters".

• If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Photography, Art, Real

  1859 'Salon of 1859', section 2, in Curiosites Esthetiques (1868).

• I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Music, Cat, Glasses

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire”

• I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Hands, Honor

• Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspiration, Common Folk, Common Sense

• Progress, this great heresy of decay.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Progress, Decay, Literature

• Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Literature, Adultery, Sexuality

  Journaux intimes (1887) 93

• The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Believe, Literature, Crowds

• 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.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Time, Aquariums

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.391, CUP Archive

• Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Two, Quality, Fundamentals

  Charles Baudelaire, Keith Waldrop (2006). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.26, Wesleyan University Press

• Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Literature, Imitating Others

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.428, CUP Archive

• We are all born marked for evil.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Evil, Literature, Born

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays”

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Fleeting, Half

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.403, CUP Archive

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