Charles Baudelaire Quote
They are alike, prim scholar and perfervid lover:When comes the season of decay, they both decideUpon sweet, husky cats to be the household pride;Cats choose, like them, to sit, and like them, shudder.Like partisans of carnal dalliance and science,They search for silence and the shadowings of dread;Hell well might harness them as horses for the dead,If it could bend their native proudness in compliance.In reverie they emulate the noble moodOf giant sphinxes stretched in depths of solitudeWho seem to slumber in a never-ending dream;Within their fertile loins a sparkling magic lies;
Charles Baudelaire
They are alike, prim scholar and perfervid lover:When comes the season of decay, they both decideUpon sweet, husky cats to be the household pride;Cats choose, like them, to sit, and like them, shudder.Like partisans of carnal dalliance and science,They search for silence and the shadowings of dread;Hell well might harness them as horses for the dead,If it could bend their native proudness in compliance.In reverie they emulate the noble moodOf giant sphinxes stretched in depths of solitudeWho seem to slumber in a never-ending dream;Within their fertile loins a sparkling magic lies;
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About Charles Baudelaire
His most famous work, a book of lyric poetry titled Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), expresses the changing nature of beauty in the rapidly industrialising Paris caused by Haussmann's renovation of Paris during the mid-19th century. Baudelaire's original style of prose-poetry influenced a generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé. He coined the term modernity (modernité) to designate the fleeting experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility of artistic expression to capture that experience. Marshall Berman has credited Baudelaire as being the first Modernist.