Charles Baudelaire Quotes about Poetry

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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

It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.

Charles Baudelaire

Eye, Imperfect Things, Poetry

"L'art romantique". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1869.