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
literature adultery sexuality
Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.
believe crowds literature
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
art literature imitating-others
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
giving literature taste
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
progress literature decay
Progress, this great heresy of decay.
two quality literature
Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
evil literature born
We are all born marked for evil.
writing literature fifty
For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
desire literature bed
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
objectivity literature moral
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
literature melancholy type
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
literature aristocracy ethics
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
men literature
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
writing poetry literature
Always be a poet, even in prose.