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
views political criticism
To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.
love men solitude
In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.
habit duty
The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.
wise attitude cat
Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.
sarcastic art prostitution
What is art? Prostitution.
cat needs speak
When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.
sweet strong cat
In my mind it strolls, as well as in my apartment. A cat, strong, sweet and delightful..
cat eye dust
Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes.
good-luck agreement people
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
lying unique men
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
memories years thousand
I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
brother reading book
Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!
dream baby doe
There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
two quality literature
Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.