"Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction."
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Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire, born on April 9, 1821, in Paris, was a groundbreaking French poet and critic whose work profoundly influenced modern literature. Best known for his seminal collection "Les Fleurs du mal" ("The Flowers of Evil"), Baudelaire explored themes of beauty, decadence, and existential anguish, encapsulating the complexities of the human experience. Despite facing censure and controversy during his lifetime, his innovative approach to poetry paved the way for future movements such as Symbolism and Modernism, solidifying his legacy as a literary titan.
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"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."
Charles Baudelaire
"The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs."
Charles Baudelaire
"There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create."
Charles Baudelaire"Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances."
Charles Baudelaire
"It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."
Charles Baudelaire"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
"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."
Charles Baudelaire"There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened."
Charles Baudelaire
"Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable."
Charles Baudelaire