Baudelaire at 200

 

“J’ai plus de souvenirs que si j’avais mille ans.” (Charles Baudelaire, born 4/9/1821)

or

“I swear to you that if I lived a thousand years / I could not be more crammed with dubious souvenirs.” (Edna St. Vincent Millay)

or

“I am as old as all the memories” (Laurence Lerner)

or

“More memories than the fossils of the ages” (Roy Fuller)

or

“I have more memories than if I had lived a thousand years” (Anthony Hecht)

 

 

[Image: Édouard Manet, Portrait of Charles Baudelaire, 1862]