Interesting. I read Baudelaire and Rimbaud and other like toxic crap when I was a teenager, and that plus other influences really helped me into the gutter for a few years. Real gems of wisdom, yeah.
Rimbaud was a bi/homosexual, and I think Baudelaire was too. They and their little coterie were immoral and depraved.
Very telling that you quote Baudelaire as a great savant.
I think Baudelaire said that. Maybe it was me.