If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“La poésie se fait dans un lit comme l’amour Ses draps défaits sont l’aurore des choses (English) Poetry is made in bed… — André Breton Copy Share Image
There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“The idea of love walked along the water and her gaze was full of absence and her eyes spat lighting. The impressionable… — André Breton Copy Share Image
“L'union libre [Freedom of Love]" My wife with the hair of a wood fire With the thoughts of heat lightning With the… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“The greatest hope, I say, is the one in which all the others are met, is that it is exists for everyone… — André Breton Copy Share Image
“The act of love and the act of poetry Are not compatible With the reading aloud of a newspaper” — André Breton Copy Share Image
It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“People despair of love stupidly – I have despaired of it myself — they live in servitude to this idea that love… — André Breton Copy Share Image
Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“Let us not mince words: The marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beauitful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful” — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“There has never been any forbidden fruit. Only temptation is divine. To feel the need to vary the object of this temptation, to replace… — André Breton Copy Share Image
“It was really a star, a star you were heading toward. You can't fail to reach it. Hearing you speak, I felt that nothing… — André Breton Copy Share Image
“All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.” andre breton” — andre breton Copy Share Image
“Unless you have been inside a sanitarium you do not know that madmen are made there, just as criminals are made in our reformatories.… — André Breton Copy Share Image
A game: say something. Close your eyes and say something. Anything, a number, a name. Like this (she closes her eyes): Two, two what?… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
