Polychrome manuscript by BRETON – “On the road to San Romano”.

André Breton (1896.1966)

Signed autograph poem.

A page in-4° on letterhead from the magazine Medium .

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“Poetry is made in bed like love”

Magnificent polychrome manuscript by André Breton, in free verse, glorifying the virtues of poetry.

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ON THE ROAD TO SAN ROMANO

 

Poetry is made in a bed like love

His unmade sheets are the dawn of things

Poetry is made in the woods

 

She has the space she needs

Not this one but the other one that conditions

                           The eye of the kite

                           Dew on a horsetail

                           The memory of a foggy bottle of Traminer on a tray

                           money

                           A tall rod of tourmaline on the sea

                           And the mental road

                           Who climbs steeply

                           A stop, it immediately gets confused

 

This is not shouted from the rooftops

It is inappropriate to leave the door open

Or call witnesses

                           The schools of fish in the tit hedges

                           The rails at the entrance to a large station

                           The reflections of the two banks

                           Furrows in bread

                           The bubbles of the stream

                           Calendar days

                           St. John's wort

 

The act of love and the act of poetry

Are incompatible

With reading the newspaper aloud

                           The meaning of the sun's ray

                           The blue glow that connects the lumberjack's ax blows

                           The wire of the kite in the shape of a heart or trap

                           The beat of the beaver tail

                           The lightning diligence

                           The throwing of sugared almonds from the top of the old steps

                           The avalanche

 

The prestigious room

No gentlemen this is not the eighth bedroom

Nor the fumes of the room on a Sunday evening

 

The poetic embrace like the embrace of flesh

As long as it lasts

Defends any escape from the misery of the world

 

André Breton

  

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On the road to San Romano, composed in 1948, was published in the journal Néon , then included in the collection of Poems published by Gallimard. The poem will also be illustrated by Toyen.