Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet
| Date of Birth | : | 09 Apr, 1821 |
| Date of Death | : | 31 Aug, 1867 |
| Place of Birth | : | Paris, France |
| Profession | : | French Poet |
| Nationality | : | French |
Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also worked as an essayist, art critic and translator. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhyme and rhythm, containing an exoticism inherited from Romantics, and are based on observations of real life.
Quotes
Total 20 Quotes
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, & which life reveals is the most living proof of our immortality.
