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Guillaume Apollinaire

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.


— Guillaume Apollinaire


#good #happiness #happy #just #just be

Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.


— Guillaume Apollinaire


#courage

C'était et je voudrais ne pas m'en souvenir c'était au déclin de la beauté...


— Guillaume Apollinaire


#men

Today you are walking in Paris the women are all steeped in blood It was and I'd rather not remember it was at beauty's decline


— Guillaume Apollinaire


#loss-of-love #love #beauty

La Puce Puces, amis, amantes même, Qu'ils sont cruels ceux qui nous aiment! Tout notre sang coule pour eux. Les bien-aimés sont malheureux.


— Guillaume Apollinaire


#love #poems #love

Oh Paris From red to green all the yellow dies away Paris Vancouver Hyeres Maintenon New York and the Antilles The window opens like an orange The beautiful fruit of light ("Windows")


— Guillaume Apollinaire


#color #colors #hyeres #maintenon #new-york

It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.


— Guillaume Apollinaire


#eyes #my soul #raining #soul

One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.


— Guillaume Apollinaire


#carry #corpse #everywhere #father

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.


— Guillaume Apollinaire


#nature #plastic #purity #subjection #truth

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.


— Guillaume Apollinaire


#does #leg #machine #make #man






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Did you know about Guillaume Apollinaire?

Apollinaire was active as a journalist and art critic for Matin Intransigeant and Paris Journal. His maternal grandfather was a general in the Russian Imperial Army killed in the Crimean War. In an open-handed preface to the catalogue of the Brussels Indépendants show Apollinaire stated that these 'new painters' accepted the name of Cubists which has been given to them.

Guillaume Apollinaire (French pronunciation: ​[ɡijom apɔliˈnɛʁ]; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet playwright short story writer novelist and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother. Among the foremost poets of the early 20th century he is credited with coining the word Surrealism and writing one of the earliest works described as surrealist the play The Breasts of Tiresias (1917 used as the basis for a 1947 opera). Two years after being wounded in World War I he died in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 at age 38.

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