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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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„People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.“
— Guillaume Apollinaire, The Cubist Painters
„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.
„From this new alliance – for until now costume and scenery on one hand, choreography on the other, have been linked only artificially – there has resulted in Parade a kind of sur-réalisme.“
— Guillaume Apollinaire
Excelsior, May 11, 1917; translation from Michael Benedikt & George E. Wellwarth (eds.) Modern French Theatre (New York: Dutton, 1964) p. xvii.
The first usage of the word surrealism in any language.
„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).
„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.
„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“
— Guillaume Apollinaire
"Cortège", line 19; translation from Roger Shattuck (trans.) Selected Writings of Guillaume Apollinaire (New York: New Directions, 1971) 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.
„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“
— Guillaume Apollinaire
"Zone", line 1; translation from Donald Revell (trans.) Alcools (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1995) p. 3.
