Music fathoms the sky.
Music fathoms the sky.
Author: Charles Baudelaire
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
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.
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.
Any healthy man can go without food for two days – but not without poetry.
Any healthy man can go without food for two days – but not without poetry.
For the merchant even honesty is a financial speculation.
For the merchant even honesty is a financial speculation.
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found from those that could be found and those who are impossible to find.
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found from those that could be found and those who are impossible to find.
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little and that true reality is only in dreams.
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little and that true reality is only in dreams.
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
Beauty is the sole ambition the exclusive goal of Taste.
Beauty is the sole ambition the exclusive goal of Taste.