Salvador Dali, Spanish Surrealist Painter, 1904-1989:

A flamboyant painter and sometime writer, sculptor and experimental film-maker, Salvador Dali was probably the greatest Surrealist artist, using bizarre dream imagery to create unforgettable and unmistakable landscapes of his inner world. His most famous work is The Persistence Of Memory.

For once things are done
time as if suddenly material
dripping like devious fluids
on the bare branches
sunning helplessly on the beach
in its crunched form
nearly stepped on.

I want to do it again
start again from this modern arrogance
this twisted rhythm
in the wilderness
in the fields of force
I want so much
to dissipate on canvas
take my place
in the permanent fall.