Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.
Charles BaudelaireImagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.
Charles BaudelaireForest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.
Charles BaudelaireHere comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.
Charles Baudelaire