Charles Pierre Baudelaire was an influential nineteenth century French poet, critic and acclaimed translator.
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“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 Baudelaire
“The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.”
“Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetry”
“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.”
“Music fathoms the sky.”
“Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses”
“I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“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.”
“This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.”