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.
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Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
But what does it matter what reality is outside myself, so long as it has helped me to live, to feel that I am, and what I am?
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
