Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
About Guillaume Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinairewas a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist and art critic of Polish descent.
Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the early 20th century, as well as one of the most impassioned defenders of Cubism and a forefather of Surrealism.
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Joy always came after pain.
French poet
I hate artists who are not of their time.
French poet
Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
French poet
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
French poet
Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
French poet
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature’s monotony.
French poet
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.
French poet
It’s raining my soul, it’s raining, but it’s raining dead eyes.
French poet
One can’t carry one’s father’s corpse about everywhere.
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When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
French poet
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
French poet