More quotes by Charles Baudelaire

"The beautiful is always bizarre."
"Always be a poet, even in prose."
"If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist."
"Always be a poet, even in prose."
"Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected."