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

 

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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It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

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Always be a poet, even in prose.

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A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

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