Andre Breton Quotes

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

The desire to reach hearts is wise

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment upon these eyes and joyfully plays on the chords of my heart in varied cadence of pleasure and pain.

The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

He is not to them what he is to me," I thought: "he is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine- I am sure he is- I feel akin to him- I understand the language of his countenance and movements: though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him.

His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.

The poet should touch our heart by showing his own

I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character.

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.

Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.

Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.

To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.

Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.

She likes you, she just doesn't understand you.