Charles Baudelaire Quotes
A Dandy does nothing.
Citations
Baudelaire, Charles. Intimate Journals. Translated by Christopher Isherwood, Blackamore Press, 1930, p. 74.
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See Robert Burton {596290} for an earlier view with which Jefferson was probably familiar.
Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and one of the first translators of Edgar Allan Poe. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited from Romantics, but are based on observations of real life.