Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will...
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“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“Remembering is only a new form of suffering.”
“I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.”
“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.”
“La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté
Luxe, calme et volupté
There, there is nothing else but grace and measure,
Richness, quietness, and pleasure.”
“Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?”
“He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.”
“The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds
Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day;
But on the ground, among the hooting crowds,
He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.”
“Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days … the region of pure poetry.”
“What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?”
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Posted on October 25th, 2009 under Quotes • Tags: beauty, Charles Baudelaire, damnation, delight, discord, eternity, game, genius, imagination, infinity, irony, life, mind, poetry, suffering. •
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