“And for your eyes my life takes poison slowly.”

— Guillaume Apollinaire, book Alcools

Et ma vie pour tes yeux lentement s'empoisonne
"Les colchiques" (The Saffrons), line 7; translation from Donald Revell (trans.) Alcools (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1995) p. 35.
Alcools (1912)

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French poet 1880–1918

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