Paul Éluard Quotes

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

✵ 14. December 1895 – 18. November 1952   •   Other names Paul Éluard, Éluard
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Famous Paul Éluard Quotes

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

Il y a assurément un autre monde, mais il est dans celui-ci...
Œuvres complètes, vol. 1, Gallimard, 1968.

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

Une femme est plus belle que le monde où je vis, Et je ferme les yeux.
Cited: Leon-Gabriel Gros. "A miracol mostrare." Cahiers du Sud. (1953) p. 36.
Citation reported: Sara Sturm-Maddox. Petrarch's laurels. (1992). Penn State Press. p. 68.

“Kodra is the father of a new world civilization”

Kodra est le père d'une nouvelle civilisation du monde.
Paul Éluard in w:1940
Citation reported: Robert Elsie. Historical Dictionary of Albania, Historical Dictionaries of Europe, No. 75 (2010). The Scarecrow Press Inc. Toronto. p. 232.

“His fables so brutally imposed, sweated by heart. Their morality is a prison which I don't want to penetrate anymore.”

Paul Éluard on La Fontaine
Attributed by: Ivry, Benjamin (1996). Francis Poulenc, p. 125, 20th-Century Composers series. Phaidon Press Limited. ISBN 071483503X.

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