Andre Breton Quotes


There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of loving you Always for the first time


Citations

Breton, André. Poems of André Breton: A Bilingual Anthology. Translated by Jean-Pierre Cauvin and Mary Ann Caws, University of Texas Press, 1982.

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Andre Breton
Andre Breton
  • Born: February 18, 1896
  • Died: September 28, 1966
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Writer

André Robert Breton was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the co-founder, leader, principal theorist and chief apologist of surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surréalisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism".