Best Quotes by Guillaume Apollinaire (Top 10)

  1. Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
  2. How slow life is, how violent hope is.
  3. Joy came always after pain.
  4. Come to the edgeHe said. They said: We are afraid.Come to the edgeHe said. They came.He pushed them, andthey flew...
  5. Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
  6. Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity, no more life even; and impotent darkness would reign forever. Poets and artists together determine the features of their age, and the future meekly conforms to their edit.
  7. 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.
  8. Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.
  9. Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.
  10. I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death

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