More quotes by Charles Baudelaire

"What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters."
"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."
"Always be a poet, even in prose."
"To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts."
"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."