Charles Baudelaire's Quote - Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one anothe

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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one anothe

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

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Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. – Charles Baudelaire

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. – Charles Baudelaire

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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected. – Charles Baudelaire

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