You see before you a man in his right mind Worldly-wise and with access to death Having tested the sorrow of love and its ecstasies Having sometimes … - Guillaume Apollinaire

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You see before you a man in his right mind
Worldly-wise and with access to death
Having tested the sorrow of love and its ecstasies
Having sometimes even astonished the professors
Good with languages
Having travelled a great deal
Having seen battle in the Artillery and the Infantry
Wounded in the head trepanned under chloroform
Having lost my best friends in the butchery
As much of antiquity and modernity as can be known I know

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About Guillaume Apollinaire

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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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 Fernand Laviet
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Adieu faux amour confondu
Avec la femme qui s'éloigne
Avec celle que j'ai perdue
L'année dernière en Allemagne
Et que je ne reverrai plus
Voie lactée ô sœur lumineuse
Des blancs ruisseaux de Chanaan
Et des corps blancs des amoureuses
Nageurs morts suivrons-nous d’ahan
Ton cours vers d'autres nébuleuses

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