I’ll just drop one of my favourite bits from the surrealists, here:
“I am the divinity of the day,” she replied. “Through me all things breathe and have their being. Do you know any popular songs? They are so full of me that they cannot be sung, they must be murmured. Everything that exists through reflection, everything that sparkles, everything that perishes dogs my footsteps. I am Nana, the idea of time. Have you never been in love with an avalanche, my dear? Just look at my skin. Although immortal, I have the appearance of a banquet of midday sunshine. A fire of straw one longs to touch. But on this eternal pyre it is the firebrand who goes up in a blaze. The sun is my little dog. See, it is trotting at my heels.”
She went off in the direction of the Rue Chauchat, while I stood there bemused: Instead of a shadow, a scarf of light was preceding her along the pavement...”
- Louis Aragon, Paris Peasant