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André Breton Quotes | Quotes said by André Breton

  • André Breton Quote #1

    (speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.


  • André Breton Quote #2

    All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
    Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself

  • André Breton Quote #3

    At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.

  • André Breton Quote #4

    Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

  • André Breton Quote #5

    Because of the earth’s roundness, Genghis Khan, in the fever of possession and destruction, hastened his own overthrow by invading lands that he had already razed and conquered. Not only is it impossible to know from where we come, but also from whom we come: nothing in common, in any case, with those who pass for being the “authors of our days” – which days? Better to invent a genealogy based on pure whim and the leanings of our hearts, but what if they don’t agree?

  • André Breton Quote #6

    Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

  • André Breton Quote #7

    I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by their absolutely unexpected violently fortuitous character, and the kind of associations of suspect ideas they provoke.

  • André Breton Quote #8

    I am the soul in limbo.

  • André Breton Quote #9

    I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where everything hanging from the the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic, where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later appear etched by a diamond.

  • André Breton Quote #10

    Il faut que l’homme s’évade de cette lice ridicule qu’on lui a faite: le prétendu réel actuel avec la perspective d’un réel futur qui ne vaille guère mieux. Chaque minute pleine porte en elle-même la négation de siècles d’histoire boitillante et cassée. Ceux à qui il appartient de faire virevolter ces huit flamboyants au-dessus de nous ne le pourront qu’avec de la sève pure._ Manifestes du surréalisme

  • André Breton Quote #11

    It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!

  • André Breton Quote #12

    It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.

  • André Breton Quote #13

    Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

  • André Breton Quote #14

    Le coeur humain, beau comme un sismographe.

  • André Breton Quote #15

    Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.

  • André Breton Quote #16

    Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

  • André Breton Quote #17

    May night continue to fall upon the orchestra

  • André Breton Quote #18

    My wife with the hair of a wood fire
    With the thoughts of heat lightning
    With the waist of an hourglass
    With the waist of an otter in the teeth of a tiger
    My wife with the lips of a cockade and of a bunch of stars of the last magnitude
    With the teeth of tracks of white mice on the white earth
    With the tongue of rubbed amber and glass
    My wife with the tongue of a stabbed host
    With the tongue of a doll that opens and closes its eyes
    With the tongue of an unbelievable stone
    My wife with the eyelashes of strokes of a child's writing
    With brows of the edge of a swallow's nest
    My wife with the brow of slates of a hothouse roof
    And of steam on the panes
    My wife with shoulders of champagne
    And of a fountain with dolphin-heads beneath the ice
    My wife with wrists of matches
    My wife with fingers of luck and ace of hearts
    With fingers of mown hay
    My wife with armpits of marten and of beechnut
    And of Midsummer Night
    Of privet and of an angelfish nest
    With arms of seafoam and of riverlocks
    And of a mingling of the wheat and the mill
    My wife with legs of flares
    With the movements of clockwork and despair
    My wife with calves of eldertree pith
    My wife with feet of initials
    With feet of rings of keys and Java sparrows drinking
    My wife with a neck of unpearled barley
    My wife with a throat of the valley of gold
    Of a tryst in the very bed of the torrent
    With breasts of night
    My wife with breasts of a marine molehill
    My wife with breasts of the ruby's crucible
    With breasts of the rose's spectre beneath the dew
    My wife with the belly of an unfolding of the fan of days
    With the belly of a gigantic claw
    My wife with the back of a bird fleeing vertically
    With a back of quicksilver
    With a back of light
    With a nape of rolled stone and wet chalk
    And of the drop of a glass where one has just been drinking
    My wife with hips of a skiff
    With hips of a chandelier and of arrow-feathers
    And of shafts of white peacock plumes
    Of an insensible pendulum
    My wife with buttocks of sandstone and asbestos
    My wife with buttocks of swans' backs
    My wife with buttocks of spring
    With the sex of an iris
    My wife with the sex of a mining-placer and of a platypus
    My wife with a sex of seaweed and ancient sweetmeat
    My wife with a sex of mirror
    My wife with eyes full of tears
    With eyes of purple panoply and of a magnetic needle
    My wife with savanna eyes
    My wife with eyes of water to he drunk in prison
    My wife with eyes of wood always under the axe
    My wife with eyes of water-level of level of air earth and fire

  • André Breton Quote #19

    My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

  • André Breton Quote #20

    Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.

  • André Breton Quote #21

    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 stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today.

  • André Breton Quote #22

    Tell me whom you haunt and I’ll tell you who you are.

  • André Breton Quote #23

    The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.

  • André Breton Quote #24

    The imaginary is what tends to become real.

  • André Breton Quote #25

    The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows

  • André Breton Quote #26

    The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream, the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion.

  • André Breton Quote #27

    The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

  • André Breton Quote #28

    The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.

  • André Breton Quote #29

    The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.

  • André Breton Quote #30

    There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.

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