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"My dark and lovely thing,"

~ Charles Baudelaire, "Remorse Too Late" from The Flowers of Evil (transl. George Dillon & Edna St. Vincent Millay)

Poetry should not, and indeed cannot properly be translated except by poets.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Introduction to the Dillon/Millay translation of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal (1936)

"Like angels with bright savage eyes..."

~ Charles Baudelaire, "The Revenant" from The Flowers of Evil (transl. by George Dillon & Edna St. Vincent Millay)

"that infallible sweet thrill of spring!"

~ Charles Baudelaire, "Annihilation" from The Flowers of Evil (transl. George Dillon & Edna St. Vincent Millay)

"And I will give thee, my dark one, Kisses as icy as the moon,"

~ Charles Baudelaire, "The Revenant" from Flowers of Evil (transl. by George Dillon & Edna St. Vincent Millay)

To plunge as into dreams into your lovely eyes, / And in the shadow of your lashes fall asleep.

~ Charles Baudelaire, "Semper Eadem" from The Flowers of Evil (transl. George Dillon & Edna St. Vincent Millay)

"The warm rose-misted twilights in the early springs,"

~ Charles Baudelaire, "The Balcony" from The Flowers of Evil (transl. George Dillon & Edna St. Vincent Millay)

"The evenings lighted by the hushed flame of the coal, The warm rose-misted twilights in the early springs,"

~ Charles Baudelaire, "The Balcony" in The Flowers of Evil (transl. George Dillon & Edna St. Vincent Millay)

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