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
sweet mouths silent
A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
moving thinking house
I think I would be happy in that place I happen not to be, and this question of moving house is the subject of a perpetual dialogue I have with my soul.
stars pride water
Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.
path
We revel in the laxness of the path we take.
generations ants holes
The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.
dream soul ambitious
The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.
order calm voluptuous
La' , tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute , Luxe, calme et volupte . There where all is order and beauty. Lush, calm and voluptuous.
fashion two atmosphere
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days … the region of pure poetry.
nice being-nice victim
It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
wine virtue drink
Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.
lying immortality proof
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
childhood genius
Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
boredom boring amusing
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
writing literature fifty
For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.