Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire; April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 April 1821
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
beauty beautiful looks
Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.
fire long caves
I lived for a long time under vast porticos That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires, And whose great pillars, straight and majestuous In the evening made seem like basaltic caves.
beauty expression currents
For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.
bored france conformity
I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.
heart self knives
I am the wound and the knife! I am the slap and the cheek! I am the limbs and the rack, And the victim and the executioner! I am the vampire of my own heart.
eye soul perception
In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be, before one's eyes. It becomes its symbol.
hanging-on taste pleasure
The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.
beauty earth causes
It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.
regret men rights
It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.
love men occupation
Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.
art crime should
A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.
past artist historical-value
My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the beauty which could be distilled from it by those artists for whom it was the present, but also precisely because it is the past, for its historical value. It is the same with the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty with which it can be invested, but also to its essential quality of being present
passion worship cult
To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my primitive passion).
self centralization
On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there.