Quotations From GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE

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  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 (1880-1918), Italian-born French poet, critic. Mercure de France (Paris) no. 33 (April 1, 1911). Anecdotiques (1926).
  
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• 2.

  It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.

  Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), Italian-born French poet, critic. La Nuit d'avril 1915, Calligrammes (1918). On enemy fire.
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  A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

  Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), Italian-born French poet, critic. "New Painters," The Cubist Painters (1913).
  
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• 4.

  Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

  Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), Italian-born French poet, critic. "On Painting," The Cubist Painters (1913).
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  The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

  Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), Italian-born French poet, critic. "On Painting," The Cubist Painters (1913).
  
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  To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

  Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), Italian-born French poet, critic. "On Painting," The Cubist Painters (1913).