Everything considered work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Everything considered work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Author: Charles Baudelaire
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest the soldier the poet. To know to kill to create.
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest the soldier the poet. To know to kill to create.
Our religion is itself profoundly sad – a religion of universal anguish and one which because of its very catholicity grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language – so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
Our religion is itself profoundly sad – a religion of universal anguish and one which because of its very catholicity grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language – so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
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.
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.
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred and when they meet upon the same road one of them has to give place.
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred and when they meet upon the same road one of them has to give place.
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.
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.
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine on poetry or on virtue as you wish.
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine on poetry or on virtue as you wish.
Always be a poet even in prose.
Always be a poet even in prose.
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols which observe him with familiar glances.
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols which observe him with familiar glances.
Nature… is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
Nature… is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.