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Biography - Charles Baudelaire:

French poet.
Born: 1821 - Died: 1867
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.




Translation

Translation

(French)



French
La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers
Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles ;
L’homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles
Qui l’observent avec des regards familiers.





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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.




Quotes for: nature


Quotes

Quotes about nature:


Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.





Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.





Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.





Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.











Quotes for: word


Quotes

Quotes for: word


The word flies and cannot be recalled.





One word and all is saved
One word and all is lost.






Finding the right words at the right moment is action.





The language of friendship is not words but meanings.





The meaning of a word is its use in the language.





Where words fail, music speaks.











Quotes for: symbol


Quotes

Quotes for: symbol


Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.





Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent.





My thought is part of the meaning of the world, and hence I use a part of the world as a symbol to express my thought.





Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.





Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word "water" is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.





Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.











Quotes

Charles Baudelaire also said...


There are moments in life when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence immeasurably increased.





There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.





I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.





Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.





There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.





Always be a poet, even in prose.












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