Toujours

Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)



À Madame Faure-Favier.

    Toujours
    Nous irons plus loin sans avancer jamais

    Et de planète en planète
    De nébuleuse en nébuleuse
    Le don Juan des mille et trois comètes
    Même sans bouger de la terre
    Cherche les forces neuves
    Et prend au sérieux les fantômes

    Et tant d'univers s'oublient
    Quels sont les grands oublieurs
    Qui donc saura nous faire oublier telle ou telle partie du monde
    Où est le Christophe Colomb à qui l'on devra l'oubli d'un continent

    Perdre
    Mais perdre vraiment
    Pour laisser place à la trouvaille
    Perdre
    La vie pour trouver la Victoire

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 22, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme a bb cbbabb cbxx AcxAa
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 617
Words 96
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 2, 6, 4, 5

Guillaume Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire was an Italian-born French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic born in Rome, in Italy, to a Polish mother. more…

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