"Poe with a cross, that's what you are, adored of the gangster age."
— Charles Baudelaire

January 1, 1970

Quote Details

Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Added on April 10, 2026
Unverified quote
0 likes
Essayists from FranceJournalists from FrancePeople from ParisArt criticsPhilosophical pessimists
Original Language: English

Sources

Karl Shapiro, "Baudelaire in Iowa," from The Bourgeois Poet (1964); printed in The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early & Late (University of Illinois Press, 1998, ), p. 148