Charles Baudelaire Quotes


It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.


Citations

Baudelaire, Charles. Intimate Journals. Translated by Christopher Isherwood, Black Spring Press, 1989, p. 94.

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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.