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Yes...presenting yourself with wings and saying, 'Come join me..' would have a different outcome.

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Thanks Janette...For years I thought it was....

'Come to the edge,' he said. They said, 'We are afraid'. 'Come to the edge', he said. They came. He pushed them...and they flew. (Guillaume Apollinare)

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Yes, lots of people believe that; it's another piece of misinformation, copycatted on social media. Logue dedicated the poem to Apollinaire and used it on a promotion for an Apollinaire exhibition and it was prefaced: 'Apollinaire said...' which is probably why the original mistake was made. 😊

(But what do you think of my 'realist' version?)

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