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

“Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.”

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

“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.”

“I walk alone, absorbed in my fantastic play, —”

“It's time, Old Captain, lift anchor, sink!”

“And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!”

“Farewell to thee! but not farewell”

“Art takes time—”

“Sleeping In The Forest”

“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”

“The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.”

“I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act.”