Paul Éluard (born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel; 14 December 1895 – 18 November 1952), was a French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movement.

Quotes

  • Kodra est le père d'une nouvelle civilisation du monde.
    • Kodra is the father of a new world civilization
    • 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.
  • Une femme est plus belle que le monde où je vis, Et je ferme les yeux.
    • A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live, and I close my eyes.
    • 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.
  • Il y a assurément un autre monde, mais il est dans celui-ci...
    • There is another world, but it is in this one.
    • Œuvres complètes, vol. 1, Gallimard, 1968.
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