If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist. Charles Baudelaire More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire More Quotes From Charles Baudelaire In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it. Charles Baudelaire riskprocrastinationrunning Always be a poet, even in prose. Charles Baudelaire poetryliteraturewriting Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. Charles Baudelaire funny-basketballoriginalitytime It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. Charles Baudelaire drunkwineinspirational No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare. Charles Baudelaire procrastinationtaskslong This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window. Charles Baudelaire sufferingmenbelieve The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows. Charles Baudelaire producewantwork Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul. Charles Baudelaire menlifehistory That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty. Charles Baudelaire astonishmentunexpectedessentials Remembering is only a new form of suffering. Charles Baudelaire formsufferingremember Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. Charles Baudelaire menordermean The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform. Charles Baudelaire pasturesimaginationgiving There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. Charles Baudelaire beautyhappinessway A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. Charles Baudelaire partywarbook Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air. Charles Baudelaire natureflowertime Extract the eternal from the ephemeral. Charles Baudelaire eternalephemeral There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed. Charles Baudelaire succeedweaknessinspirational Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem. Charles Baudelaire goalnameswriting We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. Charles Baudelaire timenightmean There are but three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the warrior and the poet. To know, to kill and to create. The rest of mankind may be taxed and drudged, they are born for the stable, that is to say, to practise what they call professions. Charles Baudelaire warriorthreemay
