Paul Eluard Quotes

The earth is blue like an orange.

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.

The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love.

Even when we sleep we watch over one another.

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

Elephants are contagious.

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.

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

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

You cannot be known Better than I know you.

Hope raises no dust.