Guillaume Apollinaire Quotes

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

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Come night, strike hour.
Days go, I endure.

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Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky.

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

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Nor days nor any time detain.
Time past or any love
Cannot come again.

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And love runs down like this
Water, love runs down.
How slow life is,
How violent hope is.

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We hurry since everything hurries
And I shall never not return
Memories are all archaic horns
Silenced by the wind.

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Under Mirabeau Bridge flows the Seine.
Why must I be reminded again
Of our love?
Doesn't happiness issue from pain?
Bring on the night, ring out the hour.
The days wear on but I endure.

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From this new alliance – for until now costume and scenery on one hand, choreography on the other, have been linked only artificially – there has resulted in Parade a kind of surrealism.

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

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Pass on, let us pass, all is passing,
And I will look back many times:
The sound of hunting horns, when it dies On the wind, is like our memories.

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I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death

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I've made a song for the poorly loved
And songs for everything I grieved –
For unaccompanied slave and shark,
For queens who've gone into the dark.

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At last you're tired of this elderly world
Shepherdess O Eiffel Tower this morning the bridges are bleating
You're fed up living with antiquity

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Shepherdess, O Eiffel Tower, your flock of bridges is bleating this morning.

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O pretty ship, my memory
Isn't this far enough to sea,
And the sea not fit to drink?
Haven't we drifted far and lost
From fair dawn to dreary dusk?

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A man like Picasso studies an object as a surgeon dissects a corpse.

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Memories are hunting horns
Whose sound dies on the wind.

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Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

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Farewell, false love, I took you for
The woman that I lost last year
Forever as I think:
I loved her but I will not see
Her any more in Germany.
O Milky Way, sister in whiteness
To Canaan's rivers and the bright
Bodies of lovers drowned,
Can we follow toilsomely
Your path to other nebulae?

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One day One day I waited for myself I said to myself Guillaume it's time you came So I could know just who I am I who know others

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The night falls and the hours ring
The days go away I remain

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People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.

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