Quote of Charles Baudelaire - Poetry and progress are like two...

Biography - Charles Baudelaire:

French poet.
Born: 1821 - Died: 1867
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

Quote

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.”
Charles Baudelaire

Quotes about poetry:

Why should poetry have to make sense?”
Charlie Chaplin

poetry

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”
Aristotle

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
Novalis

Poesy dissolves foreign being into our own.”
Novalis - Fragments

poetry

Love is the poetry of the senses.”
Honore de Balzac

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Quotes for: progress:

To progress, it is not enough to want to act, one must first know in which direction to act.”
Gustave Le Bon - Hier et demain. Pensées brèves

progress

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world : the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw

World history is the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”
Oscar Wilde - A Woman of No Importance

progress

The real democratic progress is not to lower the level of the elite toward that of the crowd, but to raise that of the crowd toward the elite.”
Gustave Le Bon - Hier et demain. Pensées brèves

A thousand things advance, nine hundred and ninety-eight fall back, this is progress.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel - Journal intime

progress

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Charles Baudelaire also said...

There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.”
Charles Baudelaire

pleasure

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”
Charles Baudelaire

beauty

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.”
Charles Baudelaire

beauty

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.”
Charles Baudelaire

Always be a poet, even in prose.”
Charles Baudelaire

Poet

The child sees everything in a state of newness; he is always drunk. Nothing more resembles what we call inspiration than the delight with which a child absorbs form and color.”
Charles Baudelaire

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