Quote of the Day: Andre Breton on Love

We often treat language like a tool: tighten the bolts, deliver the point, move on. But Andre Breton offers a more hopeful truth, that language is alive, and when we let it breathe, it can change what we think is possible: “Words make love with one another.”

Read that line slowly. It suggests words aren’t cold blocks stacked into sentences; they’re partners in a dance, curious, impulsive, generative. When two words meet that “shouldn’t,” something new can be born: a metaphor that makes you feel, a phrase that unlocks a stuck problem, a sentence that tells the truth without forcing it. This is not decoration. It’s how meaning evolves.

Practically, this matters any time you’re trying to persuade, heal, teach, or create. If you’re writing an email, don’t just report, pair clarity with care. If you’re having a hard conversation, don’t just argue, let empathy sit beside precision. If you’re building something, don’t only optimize, invite wonder. The unions you allow in your vocabulary become the unions you allow in your mind: fresh associations, wider options, greater freedom.

Andre Breton earned the right to say this by leading Surrealism into the 20th century’s artistic bloodstream, championing the subconscious, rewriting the rules of poetry and prose, and proving that unlikely combinations can reveal deeper reality.

Today, write one paragraph for yourself with a small rule: combine two words you don’t normally place together, “disciplined joy,” “tender strength,” “patient ambition”, and follow the sentence wherever it leads. May your words find each other, and may their union make room for more love.