Paul Eluard Quotes

#1. Quand les cimes de notre ciel se rejoindront Ma maison aura un toit.
(When the peaks of our sky come together My house will have a roof.)

Paul Eluard

#2. And by the power of a word, I begin my life again.

Paul Eluard

#3. Elephants are contagious

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#4. 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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#5. The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

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#6. The poet is much more the one who inspires,than the one who is inspired.

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#7. The poet is rather one who inspires than one inspired.

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#8. Hope raises no dust.

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#9. 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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#10. I messed up the hairdo of the greatest criminal in Chaldea.

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#11. The curve of your eyes goes around my heart,
A round of dance and sweetness,
Halo of time, nocturnal and safe cradle,
And if I don't know any more all that I've lived through
It's because I haven't always been seen by you.

Paul Eluard

#12. Your eyes in which I travel
Have given to signs along the roads
A meaning alien to the earth.

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#13. I was also caught by absence in all its forms.

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#14. Even when we sleep we watch over one another.

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#15. The earth is blue like an orange.

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#16. I am spilling fire on every side. But I do not trust the 500 billion flames which I am training like dogs.

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#17. 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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#18. There is another world, and it is in this one.

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#19. 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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#20. A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.

Paul Eluard