Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6983

Baudelaire [3]

Baudelaire was never vulgar – he was too refined and perfect an artist to be that. He chose the evil of life as his frequent subject and tried to extract poetic beauty out of it, as a painter may deal with a subject that to the ordinary eye may be ugly or repellent and extract artistic beauty from it. But that is not the only stuff of his poetry.

22 July 1936