Andre Breton
Andre Breton
André Bretonwas a French writer, poet, anarchist and anti-fascist. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifestoof 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism"...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth19 February 1896
CountryFrance
love sight phrases
It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first sight' and 'honeymoon'. All this shoddy terminology is on top of that tainted with the most reactionary irony.
flirting making-love finished
Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love.
love-you eggs sea
I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green
love affair desperate
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
making-love
Words make love with one another.
love heart names
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
love pregnancy wish
My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
love-you issues settling
Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.
love inspiring marriage
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
contained god grotesque single
Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, infamous, sullying, and grotesque is contained for me in this single word: God
arts chief wise
Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
dali hesitates man might vice
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
soul limbo
I am the soul in limbo.
secret oneself
What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.