Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

"Always be a poet, even in prose."
Charles Baudelaire
"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk."
Charles Baudelaire
"Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will."
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Pierre Baudelaire (UK: /ˈboʊdəlɛər/, US: /ˌboʊd(ə)ˈlɛər/; French: [ʃaʁl(ə) bodlɛʁ] ⓘ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are descr...