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
inspiration imagination
Inspiration comes of working every day.
children heart two
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
childhood genius
Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
thinking color clothes
Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes.
poverty sickness melancholy
As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work
believe feels-just clouds
You are sitting and smoking; you believe that you are sitting in your pipe, and that your pipe is smoking you; you are exhaling yourself in bluish clouds. You feel just fine in this position, and only one thing gives you worry or concern: how will you ever be able to get out of your pipe?
writing literature fifty
For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
men giving surprise
There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
childhood genius
Genius is childhood recalled at will.
dream soul ambitious
The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.
path
We revel in the laxness of the path we take.
stars pride water
Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.
passion determined
Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.
infinity infinite barbs
There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.