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
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.
pleasure
I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.
inspiring art dual-nature
An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.
memories men suffering
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
food men two
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
hysteria pleasure terror
I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.