Pierre Charles Baudleaire Quotes

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.
Pierre Charles Baudleaire

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 disproportion.
Pierre Charles Baudleaire

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
Pierre Charles Baudleaire

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
Pierre Charles Baudleaire

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
Pierre Charles Baudleaire

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Pierre Charles Baudleaire Quotes

Find on Amazon: Pierre Charles Baudleaire	A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors. Pierre Charles Baudleaire 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 disproportion. Pierre Charles Baudleaire I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. Pierre Charles Baudleaire Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. Pierre Charles Baudleaire There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. Pierre Charles Baudleaire