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Guillaume Apollinaire

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A poet, writer, and art critic. Among the foremost French poets of the early 20th century.. French poet


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Quote Left Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman. Quote Right
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Quote Left To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. Quote Right
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Quote Left Come to the edgeHe said. They said We are afraid.Come to the edgeHe said. They came.He pushed them, andthey flew... Quote Right
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Quote Left 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. Quote Right
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Quote Left Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere. Quote Right
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Book: Reflection on the Important Things