Quotes by Guillaume Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire

French poet, criticus

Alive from: 1880-1918

Category: Media | Poets (Contemporary)

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  ''Come to the edge,'' He said. They said, ''We are afraid.'' ''Come to the edge,'' He said. They cam. He pushed them... and they flew.

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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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  Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

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

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  The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

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  To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.