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
happiness sacrifice humanity
The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.
men like-family baudelaire
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
art elements half
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
heart agony forests
Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.
prayer sleep men
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
lying civilization tables
True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.
rivers yellow blue
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
sky fathom
Music fathoms the sky.
time flower circles
Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.
dance dancing ballet
Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
understanding world rounds
The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
philosophical imagination secret
Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.
beautiful art creativity
The beautiful is always bizarre.
suffering remember form
Remembering is only a new form of suffering.