155 Quotes by André Breton

Birds will be boredIf I'd forgotten somethingRing the bells of those school dismissals in the seaWhat we shall call pensive borageWe start by giving the solution to the contestTo wit how many tears can be held in a woman's hand1. as little as possible2. in a medium-sized handWhile I crumple this star-lit paperAnd while the everlasting flesh has once and for all takenpossession of the mountain summitsI live like a recluse in a little house in the VaucluseHeart king's order

…I know that if I were mad, after several days of confinement I should take advantage of any lapses in my madness to murder anyone, preferably a doctor, who came near me. At least this would permit me, like the violent, to be confined in solitary. Perhaps they’d leave me alone.

…It would be hateful to refuse whatever she asks of me, one way or another, for she is so pure, so free of any earthly tie, and cares so little, but so marvelously, for life.

This is the most beautiful night of all, the lightning filled night: day, compared to it, is night.

The double eyelid of the sun rises and falls on life. The birds' feet on the windowpane of the sky are what I used to call stars. The earth itself, whose motion seems so inexplicable as long as one remains beneath the vault, the earth that is webfooted with deserts is itself subject to the laws of migration

Let us not mince words: The marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beauitful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful

There’s only one woman left in the absence of thought that characterizes in pure black this cursed era.

The act of love and the act of poetry Are not compatibleWith the reading aloud of a newspaper

top up position down↓ bottom “Hugo est surréaliste quand il n’est pas bête.” ― André Breton, Manifestes du surréalisme tags: surrealism, victor-hugo 0 likes ↑ top up position down↓ bottom “Aucun des sophismes de la folie, - la folie qu'on enferme, - n'a été oublié par moi : je pourrais les redire tous, je tiens le système.” ― Arthur Rimbaud, Une saison en enfer & Le bateau ivre: A season in hell & The drunken boat tags: madness 0 likes Hugo est surréaliste quand il n'est pas bête.