Charles BaudelaireA collection of 41 posts

Work

Everything considered work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Respect

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest the soldier the po...

Religion

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist Religion would still be Saint...

Religion

Our religion is itself profoundly sad – a religion of universal anguish a...

Poetry

France is not poetic she even feels in fact a congenital horror of poetry. Amo...

Poetry

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an inst...

Poetry

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time be ce...

Poetry

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time get drunk ...

Poetry

Always be a poet even in prose.

Nature

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists because nothing that...