Paul Eluard Quotes
Paul Eluard paints consoling, poetic reflections on emotion, meaning and perspective that read like gentle whispers to the heart.
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A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.
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Elephants are contagious.
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Farewell sadness good day sadness you are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.
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His fables so brutally imposed, sweated by heart. Their morality is a prison which I don't want to penetrate anymore.
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Hope raises no dust.
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Earth is blue like an orange.
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The role of the artist is to guide...to teach us to see..and to show us the way from the letter to the spirit.
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There is another world and it is in this one.
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Make the sure one laugh, was she in stone? She will melt.
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The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.
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Even when we sleep we watch over one another.
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All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I entrusted myself, in what dolorous and ravishing world has my imagination enclosed me? I am sure of having been loved in the most mysterious of domains, my own. The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love. My amorous imagination has always been constant and high enough so that nothing could attempt to convince me of error.
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The front windows as are the watchmen of grief - I've been looking beyond expectation - Beyond myself - and I do not know as I love you - Which one of us is missing.
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We want to be, when we are young, A little man. I would like to be a big child, Stronger and fairer than a man, And more lucid than a child.
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Your eyes in which I travel Have given to signs along the roads A meaning alien to the earth.
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You cannot be known Better than I know you.
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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.
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The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love.
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“Elle imagine que l’horizon a pour elle dénoué sa ceinture”
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“Et partout où elle a passé Elle a laissé L’empreinte des choses brisées.”
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“Farewell Sadness Hello Sadness You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling You are inscribed in the eyes that I love You are not poverty absolutely Since the poorest of lips denounce you Ah with a smile Bonjour Tristesse Love of kind bodies Power of love From which kindness rises Like a bodiless monster Unattached head Sadness beautiful face.”
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“And by the power of a word, I begin my life again.”
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“Adieu Tristesse Bonjour Tristesse Farewell Sadness Hello Sadness You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling You are inscribed in the eyes that I love You are not poverty absolutely Since the poorest of lips denounce you Ah with a smile Bonjour Tristesse Love of kind bodies Power of love From which kindness rises Like a bodiless monster Unattached head Sadness beautiful face.”
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“Las sombras que tú creas no tienen derecho a la noche.”
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“She is always unwilling to understand, to listen, She laughs to hide her fear of herself. She has always walked beneath the arches of nights And wherever she went She left The mark of broken things.”
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“I cannot be known Better than you know me”
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“I have said three words too many, too bad, I take them back, I add them. I have several times deserved death, especially in Greece, where I sawed up the palette of an old man who stalked my lady friends right up to my camp bed. I messed up the hairdo of the greatest criminal in Chaldea. For all that I did not have to make use of my daughter native to the lower part of her father's vision, all the plains as far as the eye can see which eat hampers full of mother of pearl.”