| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 43920 |
| QUOTATION: | Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation.... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Octavio Paz (b. 1914), Mexican poet. “André Breton or the Quest of the Beginning,” Alternating Current (1967). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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