12.25 La nature est un temple...

où de vivants piliers
Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles;
L’homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles
Qui l’observent avec des regards familiers.
(C. Baudelaire)

[Simply Amanda]

The lines are so pleasing!

[Saxa van Eijnsbergen]

beautiful image and poem (it's been a long time since I read Baudelaire).

[Graeme Stevens]

superb

[Domenico Dodaro]

@alophoto thank you!
@overalvandaan me too! But when I saw this, the recollection of the poem was immediate! Thanks!
@graemestevens thank you a lot!

[Helen Sanderson]

beautiful image

[Caroline]

Wowwww Domenico I love this!!! Like Saxa I can't remember the last time I read Baudelaire I'm afraid but... :)

[Domenico Dodaro]

@hrs thank you, Helen!
@kerosene me too, I’m no more an avid reader of poetry as I was in my teens, yet some verses remain in my memory. Thank you!

[☠northy]

Love the imposing feel of this

[Domenico Dodaro]

@northy Thanks to the extreme wide angle they look taller than they are, thank you!

[Margo Sayer]

Baudelaire was one of my/our set poets and all our prof/teacher would speak of was his 'ennui' ad nauseam. Was fortunate enough to survive the trauma?!

[Domenico Dodaro]

@s4sayer I can understand... Yet he wrote some immortal lines!

[Claes]

Nice capture - like the almost fallen one in the midst of all the tall vertical lines.