Charles Baudelaire Quotes About Winter

Quotes about: Winter

• As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning, . . . [then] they fall down the curtains.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Morning, Fall, Winter

• How bittersweet it is, on winter's night,
  To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire,
  As distant memories, through the fog-dimmed light,
  Rise, to the muffled chime of churchbell choir.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Memories, Winter, Night

  Charles Baudelaire, Norman R. Shapiro (2000). “Selected Poems from Les Fleurs Du Mal: A Bilingual Edition”, p.135, University of Chicago Press

• Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom

  Charles Baudelaire

  Fate, Winter, Bored

• I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on, The windows and the stars illumined, one by one, The rivers of dark smoke pour upward lazily, And the moon rise and turn them silver. I shall see The springs, the summers, and the autumns slowly pass; And when old Winter puts his blank face to the glass, I shall close all my shutters, pull the curtains tight, And build me stately palaces by candlelight.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Stars, Spring

• I watch the springs, the summers, the autumns; And when comes the winter snow monotonous, I shut all the doors and shutters To build in the night my fairy palace.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

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