Les Fleurs du Mal [The Flowers of Evil], # 19 "La Géante [The Giantess]," st. 1 (1857) [tr. Lerner (1999)] - Baudelaire, Charles | WIST Quotations
If I had lived in that wild early world When each day saw new monstrosities, I would have fawned upon a giantess, curled Voluptuous as a cat around her knees. [Du temps que la Nature en sa verve puissante Concevait chaque jour des enfants monstrueux, J’eusse aimé vivre auprès d’une…
