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It is the only book of poetry that has had such a lasting effect on me. It is a monument unlike any other.
When I immerse myself in it, I feel the sensations of a descent into catacombs and those of a mystical elevation. Then, weeks later, still, echo in my ears in deep echoes the dizzying verses of "Harmonie du Soir":
«Valse mélancolique et langoureux vertige !
[…]
Le soleil s'est noyé dans son sang qui se fige.»
This poem will always make me shiver with indescribable and exhilarating ecstasy.
Painter of passions with underground vibrations and sublime disenchantment, Baudelaire is parred excellence the alchemist of despair. In the crucible of his soul, gravity and lightness intermingle in a subtle and skillful dosage. A secret solemnity swirls like curls of smoke throughout these pages simultaneously as the restrained animality scolds, shaking its chains. The deep cries of revolt and the despair that rise from these refined stanzas give them a blackness of a particular brilliance so fascinating and frightening.
He was a humiliated being who did not have a life, it is said, to the extent of his genius. But would he have given birth to this work if he had lived another life? He would not have had the pain, the "mud", essential for any artist worthy of the name to produce a noble work and to want to embrace the universal in transcendence:
«Soyez béni, mon Dieu, qui donnez la souffrance
Comme un divin remède à nos impuretés […]
Je sais que vous gardez une place au Poète
Dans les rangs bienheureux des saintes Légions, […]
Je sais que la douleur est la noblesse unique […]
Imposer tous les temps et tous les univers.»
Bénédiction
The height, depth, and expansive views are impossible to sum up here. They are horrible and beautiful, dark and bright, contradictory and valid. They are all the tendencies and aspirations that pull and tear the human being on the high altar of life. This book is like the dissection table of the poet's soul on which we lean to recognize ourselves with concern and excitement, both happy and repulsed.
Baudelaire is the great poet of the 19th century and much more: he is the poet who best knew how to express this perception of "[…]longs échos qui de loin se confondent/ Dans une ténébreuse et profonde unité" where "Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent". He eclipses all the others for me. He imposed himself in all the power of his quest for sublimation. He achieved what so many before and after have only glimpsed: he "descended" deep into himself and observed and enjoyed his complete and entire nature. He cultivated the contrasts and reconciled the extremes. He synthesized it.
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Nää runot puhutteli mua tavalla, mihin runous ei oo vielä koskaan yltänyt. Jotkut runot ja säkeet vaan puhutteli mua syvästi, samaistuin niihin ja kuinka ne ovat kestäneet aikaa. Synkkä tunnelma, dekadenssi ja tietynlainen kyynisyys oikein huokui sivuilta. Haluan lukea tän kyllä vielä uudestaan ja uppoutua vielä syvemmin, ehkä löydän vielä jotain uutta.

Servidora es muy inteligente, y pensé «Umm, ¿cómo me voy a complicar la vida este verano?» Y ahí se me iluminó la bombilla y pensé que era una buena idea leer en francés (idioma en el que no me siento muy segura y en el que apenas leo) y encima poesía, que apenas la llego comprender en mi idioma nativo
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