Guillaume Apollinaire Quotes


"One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere."
- Guillaume Apollinaire
(Related: Father)

"Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony."
- Guillaume Apollinaire
(Related: Men, Nature, Artists, Poets)

"Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman."
- Guillaume Apollinaire
(Related: Men, Artists, Want)

"I hate artists who are not of their time."
- Guillaume Apollinaire
(Related: Time, Artists, Hate)

"I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts."
- Guillaume Apollinaire
(Related: Love, Men, Want)

"It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes."
- Guillaume Apollinaire
(Related: Soul, Eyes)

"Joy always came after pain."
- Guillaume Apollinaire
(Related: Joy, Pain)

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
- Guillaume Apollinaire
(Related: Happiness, Now, Pursuit)

"The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection."
- Guillaume Apollinaire
(Related: Nature, Truth, Purity, Unity)

"When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg."
- Guillaume Apollinaire
(Related: Machine, Man)