Quotes from Guillaume Apollinaire

And the single string of the marine trumpets.

And for your eyes my life takes poison slowly.

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.

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?

Memories are hunting horns Whose sound dies on the wind.

Come night, strike the hour. Days go, I endure.

Under Mirabeau Bridge flows the Seine.

This new union–for up until now stage sets and costumes on the one hand and choreography on the other were only superficially linked–has given rise in [the ballet] Parade to a kind of "sur-realisme."

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Shepherdess, O Eiffel Tower, your flock of bridges is bleating this morning.

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

Under Pont Mirabeau flows the Seine.

O Milky Way, sister in whitenessTo Canaan's rivers and the brightBodies of lovers drowned,Can we follow toilsomelyYour path to other nebulae?

I hibernated in my past.

Come night, strike hour.Days go, I endure.

C'était et je voudrais ne pas m'en souvenir c'était au déclin de la beauté...

The domain of the imagination is reality.

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

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")

Her eyes were dancing like those of angels.

My Autumn eternal O my spiritual season

Memory is a hunting horn Its tone dies out along the wind.

J'ai tout donné au soleil. Tout sauf mon ombre

Shall we the shipwrecked drown and dream A further voyage to farther stars