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Apollinaire

Italian-French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, originally Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, led figures in avant-garde literary and artistic circles.

A Polish mother bore Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki, this known writer and critic.

People credit him among the foremost of the early 20th century with coining the word surrealism and with writing

Les Mamelles de Tirésias

(1917), the play of the earliest works, so described and later used as the basis for an opera in 1947.

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“I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death”
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“And God said come to the edge." "I can't. I’m afraid." "Come to the edge." "I can't. I’ll fall" "Come to the edge." I went to the edge and God pushed me…….and I flew.”
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“It's raining women's voicesas if they had diedeven in memory,and it's raining you as well-Marvellous encounters of my life(o little drops!)”
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