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
wind insanity mind
Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind.
eternal dandy superiority
Eternal superiority of the Dandy. What is the Dandy?
love-you mean heart
When a singer puts his hand on his heart, it means usually, I will always love you!
doe dandy idleness
A Dandy does nothing.
men might taste
The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their infinitely expandable nature) of his taste for the infinite; only, it is a taste that often takes a wrong turn.
hysteria seductive church
I have always been astonished that women were allowed to enter churches. What conversation can they possibly have with God? The eternal Venus (caprice, hysteria, fantasy) is one of the seductive forms of the Devil.
greatness men order
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And therefore, the great man, in order to exist, must possess a force of attack which is greater than the force of resistance developed by millions of people.
hanging-on taste pleasure
The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.
bored france conformity
I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.
fire long caves
I lived for a long time under vast porticos That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires, And whose great pillars, straight and majestuous In the evening made seem like basaltic caves.
reign becoming mediocrity
That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing.
self centralization
On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there.
queens imagination mysterious
What a mysterious faculty is that queen of the faculties!
monsters innocent strange-phenomena
Life swarms with innocent monsters.