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
childhood genius
Genius is childhood recalled at will.
inspirational dance dancing
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.
children heart two
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
space profound moments
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
confused men forests
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.
desire literature bed
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
despair boring amusing
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
inspirational wine drunk
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.
art men order
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
objectivity literature moral
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
inspire desire conquer
There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.
thinking color clothes
Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes.
art passion art-is
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
mean giving reason
Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.