# "Always For The First Time" by André Breton

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> _There is a silk ladder unrolled across the ivy_

> _There is_

> _That leaning over the precipice_ 

> _Of the hopeless fusion of your presence and absence_ 

> _I have found the secret_ 

> _Of loving you_

> _Always for the first time_

‘Always For The First Time’ is André Breton’s ode to a woman he has not met, but is willing to wait every day for. Breton was the French founder of the surrealist movement, which aimed to blur the lines between dreams and reality in art — explaining the rather whimsical nature of this beautiful love poem.

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