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
art evil good product
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art
evil joy making-love
What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.
evil literature born
We are all born marked for evil.
flower evil come-up
Evil comes up softly like a flower.
unique evil pleasure
La volupte unique et supre" me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil.
art destiny evil
Le mal se fait sans effort, naturellement, par fatalite ; le bien est toujours le produit d'un art. Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always a product of art.
art evil effort
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
listen night soft
Listen, my darling, listen to soft night approaching.
satan towards
There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other towards Satan
art aspiration available expressed means modern towards word
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art -- that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
result
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
art modernity signifies
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
below dost outcasts paradise passion thou
To lepers and to outcasts thou dost show - that passion is the paradise below
happiness delight multitudes
A multitude of small delights constitute happiness