Best Quotes by Guillaume Apollinaire (Top 10)
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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
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How slow life is, how violent hope is.
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Joy came always after pain.
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Come to the edgeHe said. They said: We are afraid.Come to the edgeHe said. They came.He pushed them, andthey flew...
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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.
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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.
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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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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.
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Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.
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I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death
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More Guillaume Apollinaire Quotes
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Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
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A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
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When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
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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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One day One day I waited for myself I said to myself Guillaume it's time you came So I could know just who I am I who know others
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The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.
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To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.
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I hate artists who are not of their time.
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One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.
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