Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Pierre Reverdy

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French poet Pierre Reverdy.

Last updated on November 24, 2024.

Pierre Reverdy was a French poet whose works were inspired by and subsequently proceeded to influence the provocative art movements of the day, Surrealism, Dadaism and Cubism. The loneliness and spiritual apprehension that ran through his poetry appealed to the Surrealist credo. He, though, remained independent of the prevailing "-isms", searching for something beyond their definitions. His writing matured into a mystical mission seeking, as he wrote: "the sublime simplicity of reality."

French - Poet | September 13, 1889 - June 17, 1960

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The image is a pure creation of the mind. It cannot be born from a comparison but from a juxtaposition of two more or less distant realities. The more the relationship between the two juxtaposed realities is distant and true, the stronger the image will be - the greater its emotional power and poetic reality..

Pierre Reverdy

I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.

Pierre Reverdy

There is no love; there are only proofs of love. Whatever love I might feel in my heart, others will see only my action.

Pierre Reverdy

The more distant and distinct the relationship between two realities that are brought together, the more powerful the image.

Pierre Reverdy

POSTNot a head stands out A finger rises Then it is the voice that one knows A signal a brief note A man leaves Up above a cloud that passes by No one goes in And the night keeps its secret

Pierre Reverdy

Creativity is to think more efficiently.

Pierre Reverdy

The point in lifeis to find equilibrium in what is inherently unstable.

Pierre Reverdy