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 Pierre Baudelaire" was a French poetry/French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering Translation/translator of Edgar Allan Poe.
His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the 19th century. Baudelaire's highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé among many others. He is credited with coining the term "modernity" (modernité) to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility art has to capture that experience.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous poets! More Charles Baudelaire on Wikipedia.There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
Always be a poet, even in prose.
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
A breath of wind from the wings of madness.
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Music fathoms the sky.
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
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.
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
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