Quotes by Baudelaire, Charles

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art -- that is, intimacy, >>

Our religion is itself profoundly sad -- a religion of universal angui >>

Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of >>

Quotations about Travel and Tourism

Travelling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, I would stay >>

The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled >>

Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not j >>

For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.

Baudelaire, Charles