Charles Baudelaire

I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#moon #paris

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#imagination

He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#vision

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#art #committed #effort #evil #fatally

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#strangeness #beauty

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

— Charles Baudelaire

#knowledge #pleasure #curiosity

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#contradictory #ecstasy #feelings #felt #heart

Inspiration comes of working every day. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#day #every #every day #inspiration #working

La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté Luxe, calme et volupté There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and pleasure. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#life

Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#winter #paris