The witness of your might and virulence,
Sweet poison mixed by angels; bitter cup
Of life and death my heart has drunken up!
(The Flask)
More Quotes from Charles Baudelaire:
One must astonish the bourgeois.Charles Baudelaire
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
Charles Baudelaire
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
Charles Baudelaire
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
Charles Baudelaire
Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
Charles Baudelaire
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.
Charles Baudelaire
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Angels Quotes, Life QuotesBased on Keywords: virulence
The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.
Yves Tanguy
Iran has a dismal record on human rights.
Howard Berman
There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.
David Frum