Guillaume Apollinaire

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."

- Guillaume Apollinaire, born 26 August 1880.

French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic.
Among the foremost poets of the early 20th century, he is credited with coining the word Surrealism and writing one of the earliest works described as surrealist, the play The Breasts of Tiresias (1917). Two years after being wounded in World War I, he died in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 at age 38.