Poetry Quote by Charles Baudelaire — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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.”

“What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.”

“My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.”

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

“Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul,”

“My love, do you recall the object which we saw,”

“Before getting translated, a poem already gets shrunk or expanded within the ‘sphere of intellect’ of the translator in the original language, and it again gets shrunk or expanded within the ‘sphere of intellect’ of the translator in the target language.”

“How to Write a Poem”

“Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of me”

“For there is always light,”

“I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low, when you might need a light jacket.”

“it's amazing how music can do that: make life feel so much more real.”