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

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

Charles Baudelaire
Inspiration, Common Folk, Common Sense

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.

Charles Baudelaire
Essentials, Astonishment, Unexpected
Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.41, Courier Corporation

I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry will be born of our intimate union. A god we shall create together, and we shall soar heavenward like sunbeams, perfumes, butterflies, birds, and all winged things.

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

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.

Charles Baudelaire
Indispensable, Condiments, Strangeness
Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.206, CUP Archive

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

Charles Baudelaire
Literature, Melancholy, Type

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

Charles Baudelaire
Hysteria, Pleasure, Terror
Charles Baudelaire (2013). “Flowers of Evil and Other Works: A Dual-Language Book”, p.263, Courier Corporation

A silent mouth is sweet to hear.

Charles Baudelaire
Sweet, Mouths, Silent

Always be drunk ... Get drunk militantly. Just get drunk.

Charles Baudelaire
Drunk, Alcohol, Funny Alcohol

No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.

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

Through the Unknown, we'll find the New

Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire (1955). “The Flowers of Evil”, New Directions Publishing Corporation

Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.

Charles Baudelaire
Writing, Names, Goal

Music fathoms the sky.

Charles Baudelaire
Sky, Fathom
Charles Baudelaire (1950). “My Heart Laid Bare, and Other Prose Writings”, Haskell House Pub Limited

What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.

Charles Baudelaire
Simple, Profound, Portraits

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

Charles Baudelaire
Hanging On, Taste, Pleasure

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

Charles Baudelaire
Life, Lonely, Heart
"Les Fleurs du Mal", "Le Guignon", a quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 440-55, 1922.

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

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

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Charles Baudelaire
Understanding, World, Rounds

For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.

Charles Baudelaire
Beauty, Expression, Currents

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

It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.

Charles Baudelaire
Beauty, Causes, Glimpse

Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.

Charles Baudelaire
Wise, Attitude, Cat
Charles Baudelaire, “Les Chats (Cats)”

Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.

Charles Baudelaire
Choices, Feelings, Way
"The 'Reasonabilists' of Berkeley" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. February 04, 2017.

The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.

Charles Baudelaire
Heart, History, Towns

Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.

Charles Baudelaire
Queens, Imagination, Infinity
"Salon de 1859". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1859.

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Charles Baudelaire
Art, Men, Spirit
Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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