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Guillaume Apollinaire

French poet.

Born August 26th, 1880 in Rome. [ref]

Died November 9th, 1918 at 38 years old in Paris (1918-1920 flu pandemic). [ref]

Occupations
art critic, diarist, drawer, literary critic, playwright, poet, storyteller, writer

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. Washington Irving