36 Quotes by Paul Éluard

Seule ma peine est ma propriété:Larmes, sueurs et le plus dur effort.Je ne suis plus qu'un objet de pitiéSinon de honte aux yeux d'un monde fort.

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

You cannot be known Better than I know you.

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.

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.

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

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.

Elephants are contagious.

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.