Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
SpleenJe suis comme le roi d'un pays pluvieux,Riche, mais impuissant, jeune et pourtant très vieux,Qui, de ses précepteurs méprisant les courbettes,S'ennuie avec ses chiens comme avec d'autres bêtes.R...
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.
No hay excusa para la maldad; pero el que es malo, si lo sabe, tiene algún mérito; el vicio más irreparable es el de hacer el mal por tontería.
«¡No renuncies jamás a tus sueños, los cuerdos nada saben del sueño admirable de un loco!»
Hay naturalezas puramente contemplativas, impropias totalmente para la acción, que, sin embargo, merced a un impulso misterioso y desconocido, actúan en ocasiones con rapidez de que se hubieran creído...
The beautiful is always bizarre.
No a todos les es dado tomar un baño de multitud; gozar de la muchedumbre es un arte; y sólo puede darse a expensas del género humano un atracón de vitalidad aquél a quien un hada insufló en la cuna e...
Evening harmonybehold the times when trembling on their stems the flowers evaporate like thuriblesthe sounds and scents turn in the evening cool;sad waltz, languid intoxication!the flowers evaporate l...
In putting off what one has to do one runs the risk of never being able to do it.
Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul,that soft summer morninground a turning in the path,the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones,its legs in the air like a woman in needburning its...
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry of a house?
The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;We find delight in the most loathsome things;Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.
¡Asombrosos viajeros! ¡Cuántas historias nobles leemos en vuestros ojos profundos como lar mar!Mostradnos en los estuches de vuestras ricas memoriasesas joyas admirables, hechas de astros y éteres.¡De...
The mainspring of genius is curiosity.
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
La Lujuria y la Muerte son dos amables muchachas,pródigas en besos y ricas en salud,cuyo vientre siempre virgen y cubierto de harapospese al cultivo eterno, jamás fructificó.Al poeta siniestro, enemig...
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