Zitate von Guillaume Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire
Geburtstag: 26. August 1880
Todesdatum: 9. November 1918
Guillaume Apollinaire, eigentlich Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary de Wąż-Kostrowicki, war ein französischer Dichter und Schriftsteller italienisch-polnischer Abstammung. Vor allem mit seiner Lyrik gehört er zu den bedeutendsten französischen Autoren des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. Er prägte die Begriffe Orphismus und Surrealismus.
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französischer DichterZitate Guillaume Apollinaire
„Come to the edge.
We might fall.
Come to the edge.
It's too high!
COME TO THE EDGE!
And they came
And he pushed
And they flew.“
— Guillaume Apollinaire
Christopher Logue's poem "Come to the Edge" from New Numbers (London: Cape, 1969) pp. 65-66. It was originally written for a poster advertising an Apollinaire exhibition at the ICA in 1961 or 1962, and was titled "Apollinaire Said"; hence it is often misattributed to Apollinaire (Source: Quote…Unquote Newsletter, July 1995, p. 2).
„We hurry since everything hurries
And I shall never not return
Memories are all archaic horns
Silenced by the wind.“
— Guillaume Apollinaire
"Cors de chasse" (Hunting Horns), line 9; translation from Donald Revell (trans.) Alcools (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1995) p. 159.
„O mouths humanity seeks a new language
Beyond the reach of grammarians“
— Guillaume Apollinaire
"Victoire" (Victory), line 21; p. 125.
„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?“
— Guillaume Apollinaire
"La Chanson du Mal-Aimé" (Song of the Poorly Loved), line 51; translation by William Meredith, from Francis Steegmuller Apollinaire: Poet Among the Painters (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973) p. 95.
„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
"L'Adieu" (The Farewell), line 1; translation from Donald Revell (trans.) Alcools (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1995) p. 83.
„And the single string of the marine trumpets.“
— Guillaume Apollinaire
"Chantre" (Singer), in its entirety; translations by William Meredith, from Francis Steegmuller Apollinaire: Poet Among the Painters (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973) p. 210.
„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“
— Guillaume Apollinaire
"Marie", line 21; translation from Donald Revell (trans.) Alcools (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1995) p. 75.
„Farewell, false love, I took you for
The woman that I lost last year
Forever as I think:
I loved her but I will not see
Her any more in Germany.
O Milky Way, sister in whiteness
To Canaan's rivers and the bright
Bodies of lovers drowned,
Can we follow toilsomely
Your path to other nebulae?“
— Guillaume Apollinaire
"La Chanson du Mal-Aimé" (Song of the Poorly Loved), line 56; translation by William Meredith, from Francis Steegmuller Apollinaire: Poet Among the Painters (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973) p. 95.
„We mean to explore kindness and its enormous silences.“
— Guillaume Apollinaire
"La jolie rousse" (The Pretty Redhead), line 26; p. 135.
