Pierre Charles Baudelaire Quotes (4 Quotes)

All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, And all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of logs below Falling on the cobblestones and the lawn.