Charles Baudelaire Quotes


The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.


Citations

Baudelaire, Charles. The Flowers of Evil. Translated by William Aggeler, Academy Library Guild, 1954, p. 5.

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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.