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
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.
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.