Quotes by Baudelaire, Charles

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

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another wi >>

Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his sou >>

Quotations about Cities and City Life

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday. >>

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at s >>

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by >>

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles