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
inspirational dance dancing
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
hysteria pleasure terror
I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
food men two
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
memories men suffering
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
nice being-nice victim
It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
mean giving reason
Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.
vision looks window
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
objectivity literature moral
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
divine stills proven
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
confused men forests
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
despair boring amusing
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
art men order
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
desire literature bed
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
condiments indispensable strangeness
Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.