Guillaume Apollinaire

(427 votes)   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.

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(210 votes)   To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

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(208 votes)   ''Come to the edge,'' He said. They said, ''We are afraid.'' ''Come to the edge,'' He said. They cam. He pushed them... and they flew.

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(150 votes)   One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.

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(128 votes)   It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.

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(126 votes)   The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

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(125 votes)   I hate artists who are not of their time.

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(124 votes)   Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

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(122 votes)   Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

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(121 votes)   A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

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(119 votes)   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.

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(118 votes)   When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

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(116 votes)   Joy always came after pain.

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(114 votes)   Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

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