At last you're tired of this elderly world Shepherdess O Ei… - Guillaume Apollinaire

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At last you're tired of this elderly world
Shepherdess O Eiffel Tower this morning the bridges are bleating
You're fed up living with antiquity

Guillaume Apollinaire

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Guillaume Apollinaire (26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish descent who was hugely influential as a Modernist poet and as a spokesman for the Cubist painters. His original name appears in many forms along the lines of Wilhelm Albert Vladimir Apollinaris Kostrowitzky or Wąż-Kostrowicki.

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Pen Names: Fernand Laviet

Alternative Names: Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki • Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki • Guillaume Apolinaire • Guillaume de Kostrowisky • Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky • Guillaume De Kostrowisky • Guillaume Albert Wladimir Alexandre Apollinaire de Kostrowitzky • Wilhelm Albert Wladimir Alexander Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky • Guillaume Albert Vladimir Alexandre Apollinaire de Kostrowicky • Guillaume Apollinaire (Wilhelm Apollinaris De Kostrowitski) • Kostrowicka • Kostro • Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
Et nos amours
Faut-il qu'il m'en souvienne
La joie venait toujours après la peine
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure

The poems I am writing at the moment will be much closer to your present way of thinking.I am trying to renew poetic style,but within a classical framework.On the other hand,I don't want to lapse into imitating others.Letter to Picasso 1918

From this new alliance – for until now costume and scenery on one hand, choreography on the other, have been linked only artificially – there has resulted in Parade a kind of sur-réalisme.

At last you're tired of this elderly world Shepherdess O Eiffel Tower this morning the bridges are bleating You're fed up living with antiquity - Guillaume Apollinaire

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