Guillaume Apollinaire quotes

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. (Guillaume Apollinaire)
How slow life is, how violent hope is. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
Joy always came after pain. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
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. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
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. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
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. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
I hate artists who are not of their time. (Guillaume Apollinaire)
And the single string of the marine trumpets. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
I used to walk by the river An old book under my arm The river is the same as pain It elapses mindlessly And when will the week be over. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
At last you're tired of this elderly world Shepherdess O Eiffel Tower this morning the bridges are bleating You're fed up living with antiquity. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
Under Mirabeau Bridge flows the Seine. Why must I be reminded again Of our love? Doesn't happiness issue from pain? Bring on the night, ring out the hour. The days wear on but I endure. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
We hurry since everything hurries And I shall never not return Memories are all archaic horns Silenced by the wind. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
And now comes the summer of violence And my youth is as dead as the springtime O Sun it is the time of fiery Reason. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
O mouths humanity seeks a new language Beyond the reach of grammarians. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
The poems I am writing at the moment will be much closer to your present way of thinking. I am trying to renew poetic style, but within a classical framework. On the other hand, I don't want to lapse into imitating others. Letter to Picasso 1918. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
Nor days nor any time detain. Time past or any love Cannot come again. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
I picked this sprig of heather Autumn has died you must remember We shall not see each other ever I'm waiting and you must remember Time's perfume is a sprig of heather. (Guillaume Apollinaire)
And love runs down like this Water, love runs down. How slow life is, How violent hope is. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
From this new alliance – for until now costume and scenery on one hand, choreography on the other, have been linked only artificially – there has resulted in Parade a kind of sur-réalisme. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire