Surrealist Love Poems

Mary Ann Caws
The poetics of surrealist love

Louis Aragon
The approach of love and a kiss
Poem written in the toilets with a knife on the wall
André Breton
Free union
I dream I see your image
Always for the first time
They tell me that over there
As they move
In the lovely twilight
On the road to San Romano
Jacques-Bernard Brunius
I love
Aimé Césaire
The automatic crystal
René Char
Love
The climate of the hunt or how poetry is made
The nuptial countenance
Salvador Dalí
Binding cradled - cradle bound
Léon-Gontran Damas
Through the half-opened window
Robert Desnos
I have so often dreamed of you
No, love is not dead
If you knew
Sleep spaces
Oh pangs of love!
Never anyone but you
The voice of Robert Desnos
Obsession
Paul Eluard
Your mouth with golden lips
The shape of your eyes
I love you
The earth is blue like an orange
I've told you
As you rise
The lover
About one, two, everyone
Since it must be
Our life
Marcelle Ferry
You came down from the mountains
Frida Kahlo
Now he comes
Annie Le Brun
Twelfth ring (extract)
Gilbert Lély
Sulphur smile
Dora Maar
I rested in the arms of my arms
Joyce Mansour
Your breath in my mouth
You love to lie in our unmade bed
I want to show myself naked
Remember
The storm sketches a silver margin
I want to sleep with you
Maria
Even long after my death
Alice Paalen
Turtledove on the ground
A woman who was beautiful
Octavio Paz
Clear night (extract)
Valentine Penrose
Beloved to love you
Benjamin Péret
Wink
Hello
Do you know
Fountain
Pablo Picasso
Her great thighs
Philippe Soupault
Georgia
Song for ghosts and for those now gone
Remedios Varo
A recipe: how to produce erotic dreams

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