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Guillaume Apollinaire on Valentine's Day

1880–1918 France

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And love runs down like this
Water, love runs down.
How slow life is,
How violent hope is.

Alcools (1912)

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.

Alcools (1912)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Guillaume Apollinaire (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.