Calligrammes Quotes

“Vase

[Why weep

Come back tomorrow

There are also poisonous flowers

and flowers always open in the evening

she loves the cinema

she has been in Russia

Love married with disdain

Pearl-studded watch

a trip to Montrouge

Maisons- Lafitte

and everything finishes in perfumes

remember

Let the flower bloom and let the fruit rot

and let the grain sprout

while the storms rage]”
― Guillaume Apollinaire, Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War

“My blue mask as a God puts on his sky”
― Guillaume Apollinaire, Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War

“Horse


[Man you will find here

a new representation of the universe

at its most poetic and most modern

Man man man man man man

Give yourself up to this art where the sublime

does not exclude charm

and brilliancy does not blur the nuance

it is now or never the moment

to be sensitive to poetry for it dominates

all dreadfully

Guillaume Apollinaire]”
― Guillaume Apollinaire, Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War

“it's raining womens voices as if they were dead even in memory”
― Guillaume Apollinaire, Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War

“yo prefiero tu nariz a todos tus órganos oh amiga mía”
― Guillaume Apollinaire, Calligrammes; poèmes de la paix et de la guerre, 1913-1916 ... Avec un portrait de l'auteur par Pable Picasso, gravé sur bois par R. Jaudon. 1925 [Leather Bound]

“So many universes forgotten
Yet where are the truly great forgetters
And whoever will teach us to forget this or that corner of the world
And where is the Christopher Columbus to forget entire continents”
― Guillaume Apollinaire, Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War