Baudelaire quotes

Like Shelleyand like Baudelaire it may be said of himthat he suffered, in his own person, the neurotic ills of an entire generation.

- Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood
  Of  T E Lawrence,'Lawrence of  Arabia'. Collected in Exhumations (1966).

Where do you get your taste in authorsThat damned library of yours! (He indicates the small bookcase at rear.) Voltaire, Rousseau, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Ibsen! Atheists, fools, and madmen! And your poets! This Dowson, and this Baudelaire, and Swinburne and O'Neill Oscar Wilde, and Whitman and Poe! Whoremongers and degenerates! Pah! When I've three good sets of Shakespeare there (he nods at the large bookcase) you could read.

- Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
^41  Tyrone. Long Day's Journey Into Night, act 4 (published 1956).