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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 Dichter und SchriftstellerZitate Guillaume Apollinaire
„People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.“
— Guillaume Apollinaire, The Cubist Painters
„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.
„Nor days nor any time detain.
Time past or any love
Cannot come again.“
— Guillaume Apollinaire
"Le Pont Mirabeau" (Mirabeau Bridge), line 19; translation by William Meredith, from Francis Steegmuller Apollinaire: Poet Among the Painters (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973) p. 193.
„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 love runs down like this
Water, love runs down.
How slow life is,
How violent hope is.“
— Guillaume Apollinaire
"Le Pont Mirabeau" (Mirabeau Bridge), line 13; translation by William Meredith, from Francis Steegmuller Apollinaire: Poet Among the Painters (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973) p. 193.
„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.
„You see before you a man in his right mind
Worldly-wise and with access to death
Having tested the sorrow of love and its ecstasies
Having sometimes even astonished the professors
Good with languages
Having travelled a great deal
Having seen battle in the Artillery and the Infantry
Wounded in the head trepanned under chloroform
Having lost my best friends in the butchery
As much of antiquity and modernity as can be known I know“
— Guillaume Apollinaire
"La jolie rousse" (The Pretty Redhead), line 1; p. 133.
„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.
