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“Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.”

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Charles Baudelaire, a renowned French poet and literary critic, was born on April 9, 1821, and died on August 31, 1867. His poetry is known for its unique symbolism and has had a profound impact on modern literature. more

“Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days … the region of pure poetry.”

“A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.”

People Ifs Firsts Wells Said Fire Mines Ten Experiments Forests Dreamer

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?”

Ifs Matter Felt Eternity Delight Infinity Damnation

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.”

Mind Kind Children Adults Ideals Difficulty Absurd Mysterious Realms Absurdity Outlets Accommodations

Book:Anthology of Black Humor

Source: Anthology of Black Humor

“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”

Firsts Adventure Patience Storytelling Explanation Wonderland Travel Adventure Life Is An Adventure Life Adventure Adventure And Life Want To Travel Alice Adventures In Wonderland No Patience Adventurous Life Alice In Wonderland Book Keep Patience Alice In Wonderland Mad Time Patience

Author:Lewis Carroll

“When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.”

Sound Voice Gay Tone Dry Sand Tides Sharks Larks Contemptuous

Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today.”

World Two Moments Today Past Clear Poet Intellectual Faculty Detached Sensory Cloudy

Book:Anthology of Black Humor

Source: Anthology of Black Humor

“The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.”

Should Facts Beautiful Certain Pure Portions Obscure Playfulness Whimsical Revolver

Author:Andre Breton

“He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.”

Kind Taken Lessons Dancer Twelve Earnest Correspondence

Book:The Man with Two Left Feet: And Other Stories

Source: The Man with Two Left Feet: And Other Stories

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”

Men Mankind

Author:Andre Gide

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