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Quotes from Alcools — Guillaume Apollinaire

1880–1918 France

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12 quotes

And for your eyes my life takes poison slowly.

Alcools (1912)

And the single string of the marine trumpets.

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

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We hurry since everything hurries
And I shall never not return
Memories are all archaic horns
Silenced by the wind.

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O pretty ship, my memory
Isn't this far enough to sea,
And the sea not fit to drink?
Haven't we drifted far and lost
From fair dawn to dreary dusk?

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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.

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Passent les jours et passent les semaines
Ni temps passé
Ni les amours reviennent

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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Attribution

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