Case d'Armons – Always, Poem by Guillaume Apollinaire

Poem by Guillaume Apollinaire Collection CalligrammesThemes WarPeriod 20th century

Toujours
We shall go farther without ever advancing

And from planet to planet
From nebula to nebula
The Don Juan of the thousand and three comets
Even without stirring from the earth
Seeks the new forces
And takes ghosts seriously

And so many universes forget themselves
Who are the great forgetters
Who then will know how to make us forget this or that part of the world
Where is the Christopher Columbus to whom we shall owe the forgetting of a continent

To lose
But truly to lose
To leave room for the find
To lose
Life to find Victory

Guillaume Apollinaire

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