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

The earth is blue like an orange.

- 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

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

She is standing on my lids And her hair is in my hair She has the colour of my eye She has the body of my hand In my shade she is engulfed As a stone…

- 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