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
prayer sleep men
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
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.
men like-family baudelaire
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
unity may human-nature
However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.
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.
practice sacred sorcery
There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
literature melancholy type
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
choices feelings way
Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.
men water secret
A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.
lying immortality proof
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
nature self voice
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
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.
boredom boring amusing
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
simple profound portraits
What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.