Charles Baudelaire Quotes

"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."
- Charles Baudelaire

"There exist only three beings worthy of respect the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create."
- Charles Baudelaire

"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
- Charles Baudelaire

"It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten."
- Charles Baudelaire

"There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start."
- Charles Baudelaire

"Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry."
- Charles Baudelaire