The last words of Baudelaire
“The great events I went in search of failed to reach my expectations," wrote Alfred de Vigny, a friend of the French poet Charles Baudelaire. Richard Sieburth’s translations of Baudelaire’s last writings arrive over a century late, so they are just in time for the empty triumph of what Baudelaire called “the cult of images.”
Source: washingtonexaminer.com