Top 62 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

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

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

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