There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
Charles BaudelaireEvil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
Charles BaudelaireRelate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days … the region of pure poetry.
Charles Baudelaire