Charles Baudelaire was a French poet who is also remembered as an art critic and essayist. He was part of the Decadent literary movement and his most famous work is a book of lyric poetry titled Les Fleurs du mal, or The Flowers of Evil. His style influenced many other important French writers like Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud. Read more about Charles Baudelaire.
‘Be Drunk’ by Charles Baudelaire is a stirring poem meant to incite the reader to passion about life.
You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it—it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.
‘A Former Life’ by Charles Baudelaire speaks on a the poet’s own imagination and how his creative works are born there and are at his beck and call.
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