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Something wrong?He saw beauty rotting in the gutters of Paris and made it sing. Baudelaire's poems turned the industrial grime and moral wreckage of a modernizing city into verse so precise it bent French poetry toward the 20th century.
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, There is an invincible taste for prostitution in the heart of man, from which comes his horror of solitude. He wants to be two.
The unique and supreme pleasure of love lies in the certainty of doing evil-and men and women know from birth that all pleasure lies in evil.
Ah! miserable dog, if I had offered you a package of excrement, you would have smelled it with delight and perhaps devoured it.
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Charles-Pierre Baudelaire was born on 9 April 1821 and spent his life watching Paris tear itself apart and rebuild. His book of lyric poetry, Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), caught the changing nature of beauty in a city being gutted by Haussmann's renovation - the fleeting, dirty, electric experience of life in an urban metropolis. He coined the term "modernity" to name that experience and the artist's duty to capture it. His prose-poetry and mastery of rhythm influenced Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, and Stéphane Mallarmé; Marshall Berman later called him the first Modernist. He died on 31 August 1867, having bent the arc of French verse toward everything that followed.
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