Guillaume Apollinaire quotes - page 2

Guillaume Apollinaire was a French poet, playwright, and art critic, regarded as one of the most influential literary figures of the early 20th century. His innovative works helped shape both the Surrealist and Cubist movements in art and literature. He introduced new forms and styles, and he is remembered for his creativity and bold experimentation. Here are 38 of his quotes:

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?

Guillaume Apollinaire

And for your eyes my life takes poison slowly.

Guillaume Apollinaire

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.

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We mean to explore kindness and its enormous silences.

Guillaume Apollinaire

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.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Color is the fruit of life.

Guillaume Apollinaire

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

Guillaume Apollinaire

We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.

Guillaume Apollinaire

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

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.

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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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