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
Born: 1821 - Died: 1867
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
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.
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Quotes about poetry:
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Quotes for: 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.
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.
Charles Baudelaire also said...
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