For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.
Charles BaudelaireOne must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Charles BaudelaireFor the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very centre of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.
Charles BaudelaireWithin the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.
Charles Baudelaire