3 Charles Baudelaire Quotes on Symbolism

Charles Baudelaire quotes on symbolism

9. La Nature est un temple ou de vivants piliers Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles; L'homme y passe a travers des forets de symboles Qui l'observent avec des regards familiers.

69. Baudelaire is the great symbol of l'art pour l'art (art for the sake of art): sickness as beauty. Baudelaire is thus Liberalism in literature, disease as a principle of Life, crisis as health, morbidity as soul-life, disintegration as purpose.

70. Poe with a cross, that's what you are, adored of the gangster age.