I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. – Charles Baudelaire
Any healthy man can go without food for two days – but not without poetry. – Charles Baudelaire

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. – Charles Baudelaire
Any healthy man can go without food for two days – but not without poetry. – Charles Baudelaire
I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card. – Charles Baudelaire
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste. – Charles Baudelaire