Charles Baudelaire Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. All dark, all bloody, my heart,

2. Always be a poet, even in prose.

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

4. I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.

5. I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

6. If rape or arson, poison or the knifeHas wove no pleasing patterns in the stuffOf this drab canvas we accept as life -It is because we are not bold enough!

7. Il était tard; ainsi qu'une médaille neuveLa pleine lune s'étalait,Et la solennité de la nuit, comme un fleuveSur Paris dormant ruisselait. Les Fleurs du Mal

8. L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu. Petits Poemes En Prose

9. Minutes, foolish mortal, are the base mineralthat you must not let go of without extracting their gold! Les Fleurs du Mal

10. My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it. Les Fleurs du Mal

11. One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk. Paris Spleen

12. 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. Intimate Journals