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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
poemakontsa: One of Robert Desnos' last poems, a love poem written from the Buchenwald concentration camp
Last Poem
I have so fiercely dreamed of you
And walked so far and spoken of you so,
Loved a shade of you so hard
That now I have no more left of you
effertzjss: Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life 6CN2ZXY
NonPersonne0: My first novel in the series about the lives of Antonin Artaud and Robert Desnos will be coming out in 2023! More here:
war_poets: 7 January 1945 In his last letter to his wife from Flossenburg concentration camp Robert Desnos writes ‘And for you … the whole of my love which will arrive greatly chilled by the journey and translation.’ Camp rules determined that every letter be written in German.
winningwriters: Amanda Holmes reads Robert Desnos’s poem “J’ai tant rêvé de toi,” translated from the French by Paul Auster as “I Have So Often Dreamed of You.”
mikgerri: Robert Desnos · Self-portrait in a photo booth · 1929
FreidaHettinge1: Essential Poems & Writings of Robert Desnos SARAAGP
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hoeger16nrtz: Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life ETIZLQQ
aliner: I’ve dreamed so much of you
Walked so much
Talked so much made love to your shadow
So much that there’s nothing left of you
- Robert Desnos, in one of the saddest poems I know
ADASpota: Robert Desnos in one of his legendary, self induced trances documented by Man Ray c.1926.
ADASpota: Robert Desnos, the great French Surrealist's poem "Un Jour Qu’il Faisait Nuit" (visualized)
ADASpota: Simone Kahn Breton transcribing Robert Desnos self induced trance session as the 1924 Surrealists look on.
TheAmScho: “I have so often dreamed of you that there is probably no time
now to waken. I sleep standing, my body exposed to all the
appearances of life and love and you, who alone still
matter to me”
aw_journal2021: Eighty-six unpublished poems by Robert Desnos published by Seghers
TheAmScho: Listen to Amanda Holmes read Robert Desnos’s poem “J’ai tant rêvé de toi,” translated from the French by Paul Auster as “I Have So Often Dreamed of You.”
TheAmScho: After joining the French Resistance, Robert Desnos was captured by the Nazis and died mere days after his concentration camp was freed. Upon his death—or so the story goes—a nurse found an excerpt from this poem in his pocket.
tropicalcamatte: a bit emotional reading Robert Desnos’ Chantefables - a selection of short poems for children with animals as themes, but it’s all metaphorical about the things he saw and lived during WW2, the Resistance and in concentration camps
TheAmScho: For this week’s Read Me a Poem, Amanda Holmes reads Robert Desnos’s “I Have So Often Dreamed of You,” translated from its original French by Paul Auster.
TheAmScho: After joining the French Resistance, Robert Desnos was captured by the Nazis and died mere days after his concentration camp was freed. Upon his death—or so the story goes—a nurse found an excerpt from this poem in his pocket.
TheAmScho: After joining the French Resistance, Robert Desnos was captured by the Nazis and died mere days after his concentration camp was freed. Upon his death—or so the story goes—a nurse found an excerpt from this poem in his pocket.
TheAmScho: Listen to Amanda Holmes read Robert Desnos’s poem “J’ai tant rêvé de toi,” translated from the French by Paul Auster as “I Have So Often Dreamed of You.”
Frannyy: "I've dreamt of you so often that you become unreal.
Is there still time to reach this living body and to kiss on its mouth the birth of the voice so dear to me?"
– Robert Desnos (translated from French by Paul Auster)
TheAmScho: For this week’s Read Me a Poem, Amanda Holmes reads Robert Desnos’s “I Have So Often Dreamed of You,” translated from its original French by Paul Auster.
TheAmScho: “I have so often dreamed of you that there is probably no time
now to waken. I sleep standing, my body exposed to all the
appearances of life and love and you, who alone still
matter to me”
WritingWOMEN: “I Have So Often Dreamed of You” by Robert Desnos
carpathianmuse: Robert Desnos ~
Translated by Paul Auster in Collected Poems (Overlook, 2004)
fisher71pjo: Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life DABEZU0
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synekura_audio: My favorite photo of Robert Desnos. Why? Because when I first saw it, I didn't know which of the men in it was Robert Desnos.
lackriver: in case you are needing a good curse, Robert Desnos has a doozy
dubuque23: Essential Poems & Writings of Robert Desnos KCTXAYW
opheliasings: "I have so fiercely dreamed of you,
And walked so far and spoken of you so,
Loved a shade of you so hard."
~ Robert Desnos.
from 'Last Poem'
translated by X. J. Kennedy
poetry_weekend: ꧁ Robert Desnos BY Claude Cahun ꧂
langworthdis: Essential Poems & Writings of Robert Desnos ENO0SMV
maida12h: Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life S7F2D6R
PoesiaRecitada: Robert Desnos - The night of loveless nights
BrianLitStudies: We're four days into the poetry unit.
Are you guys ready for a French poem?
"French?"
"Sure."
"No."
"Yeah."
[I read "Deshabille-toi" by Robert Desnos.]
Me: "Okay, let's work through it — let's find the speaker, setting, tone, theme..."
Student: "The tone is definitely French."
CSteuber70: Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life 2SV2XBF
kub81ont: Essential Poems & Writings of Robert Desnos WXVB3BJ
holdengraber: "I have dreamed of you so much that you lose your reality."
~ Robert Desnos
holdengraber: “I dreamed of you so much that my arms used to hugging your shadow to cross over my chest would not bend to the contour of your body, perhaps.”
~ Robert Desnos
Eva21182990: "I have dreamed of you so much that you are no longer real"
Robert Desnos
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reveraissance: I have dreamed of you so much that surely there is no more time for me to wake up.
robert desnos, 12H cancer sun
DifrancescoAlex: I swear to go the only good thing I learned in grad school was when CA Conrad taught us about Robert Desnos.
holymourning: Robert Desnos, from “I Have Dreamed of You So Much” (trans. Paul Auster)
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NzeoraHQ: Street in Mougins is located near Cannes, France.
Many famous French and other artists stayed there: Fernand Léger, Paul Éluard, Robert Desnos, Jean Cocteau, Isadora Duncan, Man Ray & Pablo Picasso. Pablo Picasso spent the last 12 years of his life living in Mougins (1961–1973)
Dr_TheHistories: Street in Mougins is located near Cannes, France. Many famous French and other artists stayed there: Fernand Léger, Paul Éluard, Robert Desnos, Jean Cocteau, Isadora Duncan, Man Ray and Pablo Picasso. Pablo Picasso spent last 12 years of his life living in Mougins (1961–1973).
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dinamittEros: Max Ernst.
A Friends' Reunion, 1922.
Seated from left to right: Rene Crevel, Max Ernst, Dostoyevsky, Theodore Fraenkel, Jean Paulhan, B.Peret, Johannes Baargeld, Robert Desnos.
Standing: Philippe Soupault, Jean Arp, MMorise, Raphael, Eluard, L.Aragon, ABreton, GChirico, Gala.
DanielCLienau: Check out my latest article: Print of the Day!! Fri, July 29, 2022, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973): "Contrée - Robert Desnos, Eau-forte de Picasso", etching, 1943, 106/200. $7,500.00.
flowwerring: The poem by Robert Desnos for heartbroken vegas that still not move on from pete
nighthawsk: right, the magnetic fields finished, now my daily surrealist excerpts will likely come from my Robert desnos anthology. ill read Paris peasant by aragon sometime soon if i find it, too.
000mazzy: also YES i add desnos because despite me saying he looks dead inside orion knows (and i agree with him) that robert desnos can get it
cielosueloastro: Robert Desnos
Translated by Paul Auster in Collected Poems (Overlook, 2004)
dodgemyeyes: Robert Desnos taught me to love myself.
war_poets: 15 July 1944 Robert Desnos writes to his wife from Flossenburg concentration camp ‘Our suffering would be intolerable if we could not consider it as a passing sickness.’
ketaminh: I Have Dreamed of You so Much - Poem by Robert Desnos
nighthawsk: I said robert desnos was cute and now aina is bullying me SMH look i like men who haven't slept in years
war_poets: 4 July 1900 Robert Desnos is born in Paris.
josephparis: Robert Desnos, born this day in 1900 I’ve dreamed of you so much you’re losing your reality.
The_North_Blood: Living men, think nothing of me. I am dead.
Nothing survives of my spirit or my body."
Epitaph of Robert Desnos, poet and artist, 8 June, 1945, Theresienstadt concentration camp, Czechoslovakia
Image: Robert Desnos, Les Sans cou, etching 1934
mirahalle: A little video I found a few years ago exemplifying my all-time favorite french poem, “J'ai tant rêvé de toi" ‘I have dreamed of you so much’ by Robert Desnos
vYJeb7THFIPML7m: L'Étoile de mer (English: The Starfish) is a 1928 film directed by Man Ray and based on a short poem and longer scenario, both written by Robert Desnos.
dodgemyeyes: Robert Desnos is so good.
TomSnarsky: This is the beautiful life
Robert Desnos, translated by Todd Sanders
Resilient82: Far from me and like the stars, the sea and all the trappings of poetic myth,
Far from me but here all the same without your knowing,
Far from me and even more silent because I imagine you endlessly …’
- Robert Desnos
NotSafeForWooo: Robert Desnos photographed by Man Ray
nighthawsk: some Robert desnos for the soul
InadeBree: ‘Far from me and like the stars, the sea and all the trappings of poetic myth,
Far from me but here all the same without your knowing, Far from me and even more silent because I imagine you endlessly …’
Robert Desnos, À la mystérieuse
Edvard Munch,Two People: The Lonely Ones
war_poets: 8 June 1945 Robert Desnos dies of typhoid in Theresienstadt concentration camp, Czechoslovakia
war_poets: 4 June 1944 Robert Desnos writes to his wife from Flossenburg concentration camp ‘I’m happy to have a wife like you and friends that I can rely on.’
kirstinchappell: surrealistnyc: Gathered together in a slim volume, Sommeils collects the written accounts of Robert Desnos’ sleeping “fits” a century ago at in the fall of 1922 at rue Fontaine.
AlvinLaureille: surrealistnyc: Gathered together in a slim volume, Sommeils collects the written accounts of Robert Desnos’ sleeping “fits” a century ago at in the fall of 1922 at rue Fontaine.
prolpo: i remember liking robert desnos’s poetry, but can’t remember the poetry itself. is there a book of his you would recommend?
war_poets: 8 May 1945 Robert Desnos arrives at Theriesienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia
BosalWist: The Night of loveless nights (Robert Desnos, 1942).
war_poets: 27 April 1944 Robert Desnos is deported by train from Paris, destination Auschwitz.
o_exacoustos: The Night of loveless nights (Robert Desnos, 1942).
o_exacoustos: The Night of loveless nights (Robert Desnos, 1942).
zahracadabra: when taylor swift said ‘my mind turns your life into folklore, i can’t dare to dream about you any more’ and when robert desnos said ‘i have dreamed of you so much that you are no longer real’
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MaryaHart15: Beautiful, beautiful Robert Desnos!
"...Never anyone but you will salute the sea at dawn when tired of wandering having left the dark-shadowed forests and thistle bushes I shall walk toward the foam"
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