Quotations From CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

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• 41.

  Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

  Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet. Selected Writings on Art and Artists, ed. P.E. Charvet (1972). The Painter of Modern Life, sct. 4, first published in L'Art Romantique (1869).
• 42.

  I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon.

  Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet, critic. Flowers of Evil, "Spleen II," (1857).
  
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• 43.

  The fact that several men were able to become infatuated with that latrine is truly the proof of the decline of the men of this century.

  Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet, critic. My Heart Laid Bare, XXXI (1887). On the writer George Sand (1804-1876).
• 44.

  France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

  Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet, critic. "Théophile Gautier," part V (1859).
  
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• 45.

  I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

  Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet, critic. My Heart Laid Bare, XXXIII (1887).
• 46.

  Hugo, like a priest, always has his head bowed—bowed so low that he can see nothing except his own navel.

  Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet. "Squibs," sect. 22, Intimate Journals (1887), trans. by Christopher Isherwood (1930), revised by Don Bachardy (1989). Of Victor Hugo.
• 47.

  By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

  Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet, critic. New Notes on E. Poe, part II (1859).
  
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• 48.

  An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportions.

  Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet, critic. New Notes on E. Poe, part IV (1859).
  
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• 49.

  It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.

  Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet, critic. New Notes on E. Poe, part IV (1859).
  
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• 50.

  Progress, this great heresy of decay.

  Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet, critic. New Notes on E. Poe, part II (1859).