Top 21 Poetry Surrealism Quotes
#1. My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].
Philippe Starck
#2. Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when modern Europeans arrived here. It really was a land of milk and honey. But when they brought all these cattle onto these relatively small bits of land, and the cattle were allowed to graze freely, they essentially destroyed the prairie.
Philipp Meyer
#3. We're at that kind of moment where we really have to understand that everyone is totally connected and everyone is important.
Becky Stark
#4. Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
Octavio Paz
#5. Oh,' said a very white body as it threw a wrist watch to the ground which broke without attracting anyone's attention, 'Oh, how can anyone not love poetry, natural machines, large white houses, the brilliance of steel, crimes and wild passions?
Robert Desnos
#6. I'm not sure how far the decent is, because I'm still falling. But I've hit rock-bottom about half a dozen times in my life,
Zack Love
#7. Being first lady is not just about being the wife but really taking command and having true vision.
Tyra Banks
#8. Still, the best augurs are those who divine from the portents of the past. They compile phenomenal records.
Glen Cook
#10. None of those jobs were high-profile, but once I was on ET, people then began to associate me with that show. So, that is the thing that many people know me for. When in effect, that was the end of my television career.
John Tesh
#11. Everything which is human is alien to me.
Erlend Loe
#12. [On Jason Mashak's "I Was Trained to See Shadows", in his poetry book SALTY AS A LIP:] A nice bit of smooth, full-bodied, surreal story telling. I like it.
John Bennett
#13. Neither I nor the four flippers of the sea-bear of the Boreal ocean have been able to solve the riddle of life.
Comte De Lautreamont
#14. Darya Alexandrovna made no reply. She suddenly felt that she had got far away from Anna; that there lay between them a barrier of questions on which they could never agree, and about which it was better not to speak.
Leo Tolstoy
#15. Change only happens in the present moment. The past is already done. The future is just energy and intention.
Kino MacGregor
#16. An immense effect may be produced by small powers wisely and steadily directed.
Noah Webster
#17. The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.
Graham Joyce
#18. We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#19. The act of love and the act of poetry
Are not compatible
With the reading aloud of a newspaper
Andre Breton
#20. We can sum up the surrealist distinction between 'literature' and 'poetry' by saying where the former is artificial, fictive and elusive, the latter is natural, real, direct and spontaneous.
Michael Richardson
#21. Isn't it better when people are pleasantly surprised rather than mildly disappointed by that which is you?
Stacey Turis
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