{"author":"Charles Baudelaire","author_id":"Charles+Baudelaire","total_quotes":113,"quotes":[{"text":"I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on, The windows and the stars illumined, one by one, The rivers of dark smoke pour upward lazily, And the moon rise and turn them silver. I shall see The springs, the summers, and the autumns slowly pass; And when old Winter puts his blank face to the glass, I shall close all my shutters, pull the curtains tight, And build me stately palaces by candlelight.","author":"Charles Baudelaire","tags":["dusk","evening","night","winter"],"id":1066,"author_id":"Charles+Baudelaire"},{"text":"L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu.","author":"Charles Baudelaire","tags":["art","philosophy"],"id":10268,"author_id":"Charles+Baudelaire"},{"text":"Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.","author":"Charles Baudelaire","tags":["satisfaction","always "],"id":16938,"author_id":"Charles+Baudelaire"},{"text":"The mainspring of genius is curiosity.","author":"Charles Baudelaire","tags":["genius","love","paris","parisian","poet","travel"],"id":17749,"author_id":"Charles+Baudelaire"},{"text":"My love, do you recall the object which we saw,That fair, sweet, summer morn!At a turn in the path a foul carcassOn a gravel strewn bed,Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman,Burning and dripping with poisons,Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant wayIts belly, swollen with gases.","author":"Charles Baudelaire","tags":["death","poison","wantonness","woman"],"id":24553,"author_id":"Charles+Baudelaire"},{"text":"The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.","author":"Charles Baudelaire","tags":["dance","poetry","human "],"id":26748,"author_id":"Charles+Baudelaire"},{"text":"On peut chercher dans Dieu le complice et l'ami qui manquent toujours. Dieu est l'éternel confident dans cette tragédie dont chacun est le héros.","author":"Charles Baudelaire","tags":["god"],"id":28147,"author_id":"Charles+Baudelaire"},{"text":"Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.","author":"Charles Baudelaire","tags":["beauty","strangeness"],"id":28149,"author_id":"Charles+Baudelaire"},{"text":"I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.","author":"Charles Baudelaire","tags":["i can","melancholy","which "],"id":30925,"author_id":"Charles+Baudelaire"},{"text":"It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.","author":"Charles Baudelaire","tags":["time","wine","wish "],"id":33717,"author_id":"Charles+Baudelaire"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":113,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}