Voici que vient l'été la saison violente
Et ma jeunesse est morte ainsi que le printemps
Ô soleil c'est le temps de la raison ardente" - Meaning and context.">
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And now comes the summer of violence
And my youth is as dead as the springtime
O Sun it is the time of fiery Reason
• "La jolie rousse" (The Pretty Redhead), line 31; p. 135.
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Voici que vient l'été la saison violente
Et ma jeunesse est morte ainsi que le printemps
Ô soleil c'est le temps de la raison ardente

— Guillaume Apollinaire

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Voici que vient l'été la saison violente
Et ma jeunesse est morte ainsi que le printemps
Ô soleil c'est le temps de la raison ardente" in the context of "And now comes the summer of violence
And my youth is as dead as the springtime
O Sun it is the time of fiery Reason
• "La jolie rousse" (The Pretty Redhead), line 31; p. 135." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "Guillaume Apollinaire" (Quotes, Calligrammes (1918): Translations and page-numbers are from Donald Revell (trans.) The Self-Dismembered Man: Selected Later Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 2004).) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app

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Guillaume Apollinaire

About Guillaume Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire (26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish descent who was hugely influential as a Modernist poet and as a spokesman for the Cubist painters. His original name appears in many forms along the lines of Wilhelm Albert Vladimir Apollinaris Kostrowitzky or Wąż-Kostrowicki.