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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
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Pablo Picasso: Apollinaire
Pablo Picasso: Apollinaire Apollinaire, drawing by Pablo Picasso from the frontispiece to Calligrammes, a collection of poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, 1918.

Guillaume Apollinaire

French poet
Also known as: Guillelmus Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki, Guillelmus Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki, Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky(Show More)
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Guillaume Apollinaire (born August 26, 1880, Rome, Italy—died November 9, 1918, Paris, France) was a poet who in his short life took part in all the avant-garde movements that flourished in French literary and artistic circles at the beginning of the 20th century, including Cubism, Surrealism, Fauvism, and Orphism, and who helped to direct poetry into unexplored channels. The son of a Polish émigrée and an Italian officer, he kept his origins secret. Left more...

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