Charles Pierre Baudelaire is one of the most influential French poets of the nineteenth century. French poet essayist art critic and translator, b. Paris, 9 April 1821, the son of a distinguished friend of Cabanis and Condorcet. He first became famous by the publication of Fleurs du Mal, 1857, in which appeared Les Litanies de Satan. The work was prosecuted and suppressed. Baudelaire translated some of the writings of E. A. Poe, a poet whom he resembled much in life and character. The divine beauty of his face has been celebrated by the French poet, Théodore de Banville, and his genius in some magnificent stanzas by the English poet, Algernon Swinburne. Died Paris 31 Aug. 1867.
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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. Go to Quote / Comment
The past is interesting not only for the beauty which the artists for whom it was the present were able to extract from it, but also as past, ... Go to Quote / Comment
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. Go to Quote / Comment
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. Go to Quote / Comment
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. Go to Quote / Comment