Guillaume Apollinaire
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"Guillaume Apollinaire", born "Wilhelm Albert W?odzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki" was a France/French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Poland/Polish descent.

He is considered one of the foremost poets of the early 20th century, as well as one of the forefathers of surrealism. He is credited with coining the word "surrealism", and writing one of the earliest works described as surrealist, the play (theatre)/play The Breasts of Tiresias (1917, used as the basis for a 1947 Les mamelles de Tirésias/opera).

Two years after being wounded in World War I, he died in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 at age 38.

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

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

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

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

I hate artists who are not of their time.

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.

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.

One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.

Joy always came after pain.