Selected Poems Quotes

“Oh Paris

From red to green all the yellow dies away

Paris Vancouver Hyeres Maintenon New York and the Antilles

The window opens like an orange

The beautiful fruit of light

("Windows")”
― Guillaume Apollinaire, Zone

“I would prefer day and night in the sphinxeries
Wanting to know and thus, at last, be devoured there.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire, Zone

“You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity

The most modern European is you Pope Pius X

And you whom the windows observe shame keeps you

From entering a church and confessing this morning

You read the prospectuses the catalogues the billboards that sing aloud

That's the poetry this morning and for the prose there are the newspapers

There are the 25 centime serials full of murder mysteries

Portraits of great men and a thousand different headlines

("Zone")”
― Guillaume Apollinaire, Zone

“Mixed into your memories
You are fortified for life
And you don’t need anyone anymore.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire, Zone

“Today you are walking in Paris the women are all steeped in blood

It was and I'd rather not remember it was at beauty's decline”
― Guillaume Apollinaire, Zone

“Come to the edge, He said.
They said: We are afraid.
Come to the edge, He said.
They came. He pushed them,
And they flew . . ."
— Guillaume Apollinairet
French poet”
― Guillaume Apollinaire, Poesie