Charles Baudelaire Quotes


If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!


Citations

Baudelaire, Charles. "To the Reader." Poems of Baudelaire, translated by Roy Campbell, Pantheon Books, 1952, p. 4.

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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.