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Charles Baudelaire Quotes | Quotes said by Charles Baudelaire

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #1

    À une passante

    La rue assourdissante autour de moi hurlait.?
    Longue, mince, en grand deuil, douleur majestueuse,?
    Une femme passa, d'une main fastueuse?
    Soulevant, balançant le feston et l'ourlet;

    Agile et noble, avec sa jambe de statue.?
    Moi, je buvais, crispé comme un extravagant,?
    Dans son oeil, ciel livide où germe l'ouragan,?
    La douceur qui fascine et le plaisir qui tue.

    Un éclair . . . puis la nuit! — Fugitive beauté
    Dont le regard m'a fait soudainement renaître,?
    Ne te verrai-je plus que dans l'éternité?

    Ailleurs, bien loin d'ici! trop tard! jamais peut-être!?
    Car j'ignore où tu fuis, tu ne sais où je vais,?
    Ô toi que j'eusse aimée, ô toi qui le savais!


  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #2

    GET DRUNK

    Always be drunk.
    That’s it!
    The great imperative!
    In order not to feel
    Time’s horrid fardel
    bruise your shoulders,
    grinding you into the earth,
    Get drunk and stay that way.
    On what?
    On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever.
    But get drunk.
    And if you sometimes happen to wake up
    on the porches of a palace,
    in the green grass of a ditch,
    in the dismal loneliness of your own room,
    your drunkenness gone or disappearing,
    ask the wind,
    the wave,
    the star,
    the bird,
    the clock,
    ask everything that flees,
    everything that groans
    or rolls
    or sings,
    everything that speaks,
    ask what time it is;
    and the wind,
    the wave,
    the star,
    the bird,
    the clock
    will answer you:
    “Time to get drunk!
    Don’t be martyred slaves of Time,
    Get drunk!
    Stay drunk!
    On wine, virtue, poetry, whatever!

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #3

    Le Chat

    Viens, mon beau chat, sur mon coeur amoureux;
    Retiens les griffes de ta patte,
    Et laisse-moi plonger dans tes beaux yeux,
    Mêlés de métal et d'agate.

    Lorsque mes doigts caressent à loisir
    Ta tête et ton dos élastique,
    Et que ma main s'enivre du plaisir
    De palper ton corps électrique,

    Je vois ma femme en esprit. Son regard,
    Comme le tien, aimable bête,
    Profond et froid, coupe et fend comme un dard,

    Et, des pieds jusques à la tête,
    Un air subtil, un dangereux parfum,
    Nagent autour de son corps brun.

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #4

    Le serpent qui danse

    Que j'aime voir, chère indolente,
    De ton corps si beau,
    Comme une étoffe vacillante,
    Miroiter la peau!

    Sur ta chevelure profonde
    Aux acres parfums,
    Mer odorante et vagabonde
    Aux flots bleus et bruns,

    Comme un navire qui s'éveille
    Au vent du matin,
    Mon âme rêveuse appareille
    Pour un ciel lointain.

    Tes yeux où rien ne se révèle
    De doux ni d'amer,
    Sont deux bijoux froids où se mêlent
    L’or avec le fer.

    A te voir marcher en cadence,
    Belle d'abandon,
    On dirait un serpent qui danse
    Au bout d'un bâton.

    Sous le fardeau de ta paresse
    Ta tête d'enfant
    Se balance avec la mollesse
    D’un jeune éléphant,

    Et ton corps se penche et s'allonge
    Comme un fin vaisseau
    Qui roule bord sur bord et plonge
    Ses vergues dans l'eau.

    Comme un flot grossi par la fonte
    Des glaciers grondants,
    Quand l'eau de ta bouche remonte
    Au bord de tes dents,

    Je crois boire un vin de bohême,
    Amer et vainqueur,
    Un ciel liquide qui parsème
    D’étoiles mon coeur!

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #5

    Les hiboux

    Sous les ifs noirs qui les abritent,
    Les hiboux se tiennent rangés,
    Ainsi que des dieux étrangers,
    Dardant leur oeil rouge. Ils méditent.

    Sans remuer ils se tiendront
    Jusqu'à l'heure mélancolique
    Où, poussant le soleil oblique,
    Les ténèbres s'établiront.

    Leur attitude au sage enseigne
    Qu'il faut en ce monde qu'il craigne
    Le tumulte et le mouvement,

    L'homme ivre d'une ombre qui passe
    Porte toujours le châtiment
    D'avoir voulu changer de place.

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #6

    —Hypocrite lecteur,—mon semblable,—mon frère!

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #7

    «¡No renuncies jamás a tus sueños, los cuerdos nada saben del sueño admirable de un loco!»

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #8

    A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #9

    A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #10

    A soul is a thing so impalpable, so often useless and sometimes such a nuisance, that the loss of it disturbed me less than if I had lost my visiting card while taking a walk.

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #11

    Abolishers of the soul (materialists) are necessarily abolishers of hell, they, certainly, are interested. At all events, they are people who fear to live again--lazy people.

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #12

    Always be a poet, even in prose.

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #13

    An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #14

    And yet
    to wine, to opium even, I prefer
    the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself;
    and in the wasteland of desire
    your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst.

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #15

    And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #16

    Ant swarming City
    City full of dreams
    Where in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #17

    Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #18

    Any healthy man can go without food for two days--but not without poetry.

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #19

    As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #20

    Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #21

    Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #22

    Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul,
    that soft summer morning
    round a turning in the path,
    the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones,
    its legs in the air like a woman in need
    burning its wedding poisons
    like a fountain with its rhythmic sobs,
    I could hear it clearly flowing with a long murmuring sound,
    but I touch my body in vain to find the wound.
    I am the vampire of my own heart,
    one of the great outcasts condemned to eternal laughter
    who can no longer smile.
    Am I dead?
    I must be dead.

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #23

    Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #24

    Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #25

    Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #26

    Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #27

    Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires
    Sisyphean patience for its song,
    Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short
    and Art is long.

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #28

    For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #29

    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.

  • Charles Baudelaire Quote #30

    Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural or artificial - you must first have the courage to swallow it; and those who perhaps most merit happiness are precisely those on whom felicity, as mortals conceive it, always acts as a vomitive.

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