The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future. 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 risk procrastination running Always be a poet, even in prose. Charles Baudelaire poetry literature writing Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. Charles Baudelaire funny-basketball originality time 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 drunk wine inspirational No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare. Charles Baudelaire procrastination tasks long 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 suffering men believe 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 produce want work Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul. Charles Baudelaire men life history 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 astonishment unexpected essentials Remembering is only a new form of suffering. Charles Baudelaire form suffering remember 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 men order mean 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 pastures imagination giving There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. Charles Baudelaire beauty happiness way A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. Charles Baudelaire party war book 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 nature flower time Extract the eternal from the ephemeral. Charles Baudelaire eternal ephemeral 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 succeed weakness inspirational 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 goal names writing 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 time night mean 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 warrior three may
