Robert Desnos
Who is Robert Desnos
Robert Desnos (French: [ʁɔbɛʁ dɛsnos]; 4 July 1900 – 8 June 1945) was a French poet who played a key role in the Surrealist movement of his day.
Biography
Robert Desnos was born in Paris on 4 July 1900, the son of a licensed dealer in game and poultry at the Halles market.
Desnos attended commercial college, and started work as a clerk. He also worked as an amanuensis for journalist Jean de Bonnefon. After that he worked as a literary columnist for the newspaper Paris-Soir.
The first poems by Desnos to appear in print were published in 1917 in La Tribune des Jeunes (Platform for Youth) and in 1919 in the avant-garde review Le Trait d'union (Hyphen), and also the same year in the Dadaist magazine Littérature. In 1922 he published his first...
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Robert Desnos Poems
- Cascade
What sort of arrow split the sky and this rock?
It's quivering, spreading like a peacock's fan
Like the mist around the shaft and knot less feathers
Of a comet come to nest at midnight.
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- Ebony Life
A frightening stillness will mark that day
And the shadow of streetlights and fire-alarms will exhaust the light
All things, the quietest and the loudest, will be silent
The suckling brats will die
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- I Have Dreamed Of You So Much
I have dreamed of you so much that you are no longer real.
Is there still time for me to reach your breathing body, to kiss your mouth and make
your dear voice come alive again?
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- Dove In The Arch
Cursed!
be the father of the bride
of the blacksmith who forged the iron for the axe
with which the woodsman hacked down the oak
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- The Voice Of Robert Desnos
So like a flower and a current of air
the flow of water fleeting shadows
the smile glimpsed at midnight this excellent evening
so like every joy and every sadness
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- Raniaaldmr: 4. as they age, all things grow rigid and bright.
the streets fall nameless, and the knots untie.
now, with this landscape, i fix; i shine.”
― robert desnos
- Desdieuxages: taliesin and robert desnos and athena and all those sprung fully formed and upright, not on shaking fawn legs but already on the hunt and howling after their first insight, their first love, and their first conquest.
- War_poets: 22 february 1944 robert desnos is arrested by the nazis in paris
- Reveraissance: i have dreamed of you so much that you are no longer real. is there still time for me to reach your breathing body, to kiss your mouth and make your dear voice come alive again?
robert desnos, cancer venus
- Deborahjshore: “i have so often dreamed of you” by robert desnos
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