Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. – Charles Baudelaire
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. – Charles Baudelaire

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. – Charles Baudelaire
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. – Charles Baudelaire
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. – Charles Baudelaire
France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic. – Charles Baudelaire