Charles Baudelaire poems, biography, quotes, examples of poetry, articles, essays and more. The best Charles Baudelaire resource with comprehensive poet information, a list of poems, short poems, quotations, best poems, poet's works and more.
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.
Poems are below...
Articles about Charles Baudelaire or articles that mention Charles Baudelaire.
Here are a few random quotes by Charles Baudelaire.
See also: All Charles Baudelaire Quotes
Often, while contemplating works of art, not in their easily perceptible materiality, in the too-clear hieroglyphs of their contours or the ob... Go to Quote / Comment
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. Go to Quote / Comment
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. Go to Quote / Comment
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. Go to Quote / Comment
Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry. Go to Quote / Comment