Quotes about Baudelaire

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The beautiful is always bizarre. — Charles Baudelaire
If rape or arson, poison or the knifeHas wove no pleasing patterns in the stuffOf this drab canvas we accept as life -It — Charles Baudelaire
Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names r — Stephen Fry, The Library Book
There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them — but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I also think of those daily slaughters along the highways, of that death that is as horrible as it is banal and that bea — Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel
To be away from home and yet find oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and ye — Charles Baudelaire
My heart is lost — the beasts have eaten it.
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. — Charles Baudelaire
the Devil's hand directs our every movethe things we loathed become the things we love — day by day we drop through stinking shadesquite undeterred on our descent to Hell.
To fornicate is to aspire to enter into another — the artist never emerges from himself.
Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, — Gaston Bachelard
He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to prese — Angela Carter, Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories