Top 41 Guillaume Apollinaire Quotes
#2. Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky.
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#4. 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")
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#6. When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.
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#7. Overhead in the Paris sky
Two airplanes fought it out one day
And one of them was my whole youth
The other was my days to come
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#16. Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.
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#18. Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.
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#19. It's raining women's voices
as if they had died
even in memory,
and it's raining you as well-
Marvellous encounters of my life
(o little drops!)
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#20. Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
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#22. In this mirror,
I am enclosed a live and real as you.
Imagine angels and not like the reflections.
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#24. I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.
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#26. 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
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#28. 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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#29. When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
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#32. Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.
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#34. 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.
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#38. A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
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#39. And God said come to the edge." "I can't. I'm afraid." "Come to the edge." "I can't. I'll fall" "Come to the edge." I went to the edge and God pushed me ... ... .and I flew.
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