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

- Paul Eluard

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 al…

- Paul Eluard

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

- Paul Eluard

You cannot be known Better than I know you.

- Paul Eluard

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 nigh…

- Paul Eluard

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.

- Paul Eluard

The earth is blue like an orange.

- Paul Eluard

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

- Paul Eluard

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

- Paul Eluard