Paul Éluard Quotes

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I cannot be known Better than you know me Your eyes in which we sleep We together Have made for my man's gleam A better fate than for the common nights Your eyes in which I travel Have given to signs along the roads A meaning alien to the earth In your eyes who reveal to us Our endless solitude Are no longer what they thought themselves to be You cannot be known Better than I know you.

Paul Éluard

[La Fontaine's] fables so brutally imposed, sweated by heart. Their morality is a prison which I don't want to penetrate anymore.

Paul Éluard

I was born to know you To give you your name Freedom.

Paul Éluard

Farewell sadness
Good-day sadness
You are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.

Paul Éluard

A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live, and I close my eyes.

Paul Éluard

There is another world, but it is in this one.

Paul Éluard

Paul Éluard

Born: December 14, 1895

Died: November 18, 1952 (aged 56)

Bio: Paul Éluard, born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel, was a French poet and one of the founders of the surrealist movement.

Known for:

Liberty (1942)
Capitale de la douleur (1926)
Poésie ininterrompue (1946)
Selected poems
A Moral Lesson

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