“Nor days nor any time detain.
Time past or any love
Cannot come again.”

— Guillaume Apollinaire, book Alcools

Passent les jours et passent les semaines
Ni temps passé
Ni les amours reviennent
"Le Pont Mirabeau" (Mirabeau Bridge), line 19; translation by William Meredith, from Francis Steegmuller Apollinaire: Poet Among the Painters (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973) p. 193.
Alcools (1912)

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French poet 1880–1918

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