Apollinaire

[ananda]

Wow

[Petrushka]

1. Apollinaire: quotations & poems (translations)

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/66522.Guillaume_Apollinaire


http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/Apollinaire.htm#_Toc24461588

[ananda]

2. Wondering

Thanks, Petrushka.

I wonder if Apollinaire pushed his life and his art to the edge in order to escape the trivial, the boredom, the usual and, thereby, the boundaries of art. He was at the forefront of the new-guard waves of early twentieth art, sort of the energy behind it, even though his own art didn't exactly achieve the heights of those that followed. It was still pretty good and interesting, though... lots of energy and some decadence, too.

[Cavallo]

3. I heard the come to the edge one when I was in figure skating a very long time ago but didn't

know who had written it until now.

I like this one:
When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire