Polychrome manuscript by BRETON – “On the road to San Romano”.
“Poetry is made in a bed like love – Its unmade sheets are the dawn of things”
4.500€
“Poetry is made in a bed like love – Its unmade sheets are the dawn of things”
4.500€
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.