“We mean to explore kindness and its enormous silences.”

— Guillaume Apollinaire, book Calligrammes

Nous voulons explorer la bonté contrée énorme où tout se tait
"La jolie rousse" (The Pretty Redhead), line 26; p. 135.
Calligrammes (1918)

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French poet 1880–1918

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