Guillaume Apollinaire quotes - page 2

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? (Guillaume Apollinaire)
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? View quote
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And for your eyes my life takes poison slowly. View quote
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You see before you a man in his right mind Worldly-wise and with access to death Having tested the sorrow of love and its ecstasies Having sometimes even astonished the professors Good with languages Having travelled a great deal Having seen battle in the Artillery and the Infantry Wounded in the head trepanned under chloroform Having lost my best friends in the butchery As much of antiquity and modernity as can be known I know. View quote
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We mean to explore kindness and its enormous silences. View quote
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Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It's too high! COME TO THE EDGE! And they came And he pushed And they flew. View quote
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Color is the fruit of life. View quote
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When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg. View quote
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We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go. View quote
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The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. View quote
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Come to the edge," he said. They said, "We are afraid." Come to the edge," he said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew. (Guillaume Apollinaire)
Come to the edge," he said. "We can't, we're afraid!" they responded. "Come to the edge," he said. "We can't, We will fall!" they responded. "Come to the edge," he said. And so they came. And he pushed them. And they flew. View quote
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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. View quote
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