Charles Baudelaire Quotes


But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.


Citations

Baudelaire, Charles. The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays. Translated by Jonathan Mayne, Phaidon Press, 1964, p. 27.

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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
  • Born: April 9, 1821
  • Died: August 31, 1867
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Poet, Art Critic, Philosopher

Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and one of the first translators of Edgar Allan Poe. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited from Romantics, but are based on observations of real life.