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

“I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.”

“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.”

“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”—Charles Baudelaire”

“Tell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love best, your father,”

“All dark, all bloody, my heart,”

“To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparable of vices is to do evil from stupidity.”

“Maybe love was meant to save us from ourselves.”

“As an unperfect actor on the stage,”

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,”

“This is how we dreamed. Moonlight in our mouths, love on our lips and summer in our skies.”

“Break my heart and you will find yourself inside.”

“Time is all we have and don’t.”