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).
