Charles Baudelaire Quotes
Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.
Topics
Christianity
Intimacy
Marriage
Religion
Spirituality
Church
Commitment
Social Norms
Romantic Love
Partnership
Creating
Love, Romance
Conjugal Love
Emotional Attachment
Institutional Control
Matrimonial Bond
Romantic Connection
Romantic Relationships
Sacred Love
Sacred Union
Spousal Relationship
Citations
Baudelaire, Charles. Intimate Journals. Translated by Christopher Isherwood, Blackamore Press, 1930.
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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.