Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918)

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THE FRENCH-ITALIAN-POLISH poet Guillaume Apollinaire wasn't quite sure of his identity. Right in the middle of a hectic life of pleasure in early 20th century Paris, he halted for one moment - and asked himself "who am I", in a stanza without punctuation. He was born in Rome in 1880 and died in Paris at the end of the war in 1918. At the time of his funeral, people ran out into the streets shouting: "Down with Guillaume!" But this did not refer to the poet, but to the German emperor Wilhelm (G.. Continue..

Some of Guillaume Apollinaire Poems

L'Adieu

Le Pont Mirabeau

Marizibill

Les Colchiques

Rhénane d'Automne

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

- Guillaume Apollinaire

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