Alcools
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Source: Zone
“En poésie nous avons des droits sur les paroles qui forment et défont l'Univers.”
Source: Le 11.000 verghe
Source: Zone
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Source: Zone
“I have drunk you and my thirst survives But now I know the flavor of the cosmos”
Source: Alcools
“Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.”
Source: Cubism
“Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.”
Source: Alcools: Poems
“I don't want to work. I want to smoke.”
Source: Zone: Selected Poems
“People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.”
Source: The Cubist Painters
“I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death”
Source: Calligrammes
Source: Alcools: Poems
“In this mirror, I am enclosed a live and real as you. Imagine angels and not like the reflections.”
Source: Selected Writings of Guillaume Apollinaire
“How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
Source: Selected Poems: with parallel French text
“The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.”
“Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure Les jours s'en vont je demeure”
“It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.”
Source: The Self-Dismembered Man: Selected Later Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire
“To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.”
“Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.”
“We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.”
“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
“I hate artists who are not of their time.”
Source: The Cubist Painters