Paul Eluard Quotes

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

Since they weren't sleepy and nothing had been left unsaid, they began to read poetry to each other, taking turns like children and enjoying it. Bachir had a lovely voice, one that was already that of a man. He knew many poems by heart. He lovingly recited Victor Hugo, with warmth Rimbaud's Le bateau ivre, and poems written by young people going into battle; he then moved on to the poets of liberty - Rimbaud again, Eluard, and Desnos. ~ Assia Djebar

She is always unwilling to understand, to listen,
She laughs to hide her fear of herself.
She has always walked beneath the arches of nights
And wherever she went
She left
The mark of broken things. ~ Paul Eluard

All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I entrusted myself, in what dolorous and ravishing world has my imagination enclosed me? I am sure of having been loved in the most mysterious of domains, my own. The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love. My amorous imagination has always been constant and high enough so that nothing could attempt to convince me of error. ~ Paul Eluard

Hope raises no dust. ~ Paul Eluard

Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face. ~ Paul Eluard

Even when we sleep we watch over one another. ~ Paul Eluard

I am spilling fire on every side. But I do not trust the 500 billion flames which I am training like dogs. ~ Paul Eluard

Your voice, your eyes, your hands, your lips
Our silence, our words
Light that goes, light that returns
A single smile between us
In quest of knowledge I watched night create day
O beloved of all, beloved of one alone
your mouth silently promised to be happy
Away, away, says hate
Closer, closer, says love
A caress leads us from our infancy
Increasingly I see the human form as a lovers' dialogue
The heart has but one mouth
Everything by chance
All words without thought
Sentiments adrift
A glance, a word, because I love you
Everything moves
We must advance to live
Aim straight ahead toward those you love
I went toward you, endlessly toward the light
If you smile, it enfolds me all the better
The rays of your arms pierce the mist. ~ Paul Eluard

The poet is much more the one who inspires,than the one who is inspired. ~ Paul Eluard

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. ~ Paul Eluard

There is another world, and it is in this one. ~ Paul Eluard

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

Quand les cimes de notre ciel se rejoindront Ma maison aura un toit.
(When the peaks of our sky come together My house will have a roof.) ~ Paul Eluard

The earth is blue like an orange. ~ Paul Eluard

You ever pull a stunt like you did last night again and I will use your intestines to string your Les Paul. ~ Jay Crownover

The only person I knew how to be with now was myself - but I wasn´t really anyone, and I wasn´t really alive. I was just someone who pretended to be alive, a dead mean who spent his days translating a dead man´s book. ~ Paul Auster

The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against "criminal gangsterism". Terrorism is a tactic. You can't have a war against a tactic. It's deliberately vague and non-definable in order to justify and permit perpetual war anywhere and under any circumstance. ~ Ron Paul

I have a confession to make.
I hate voir dire.
I despise prying into other people's lives because I wouldn't want them prying into mine. ~ Paul Levine

It would be so good to settle down and become part of somewhere again, instead of constantly passing through ~ Paul Torday

The prophet Ezekiel said, "I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh." This is the experience the apostle Paul had after his encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus. It radically changed his outlook on life, and he received baptism. God transformed his heart! However, only think: a persecutor, a man who hounded out the Church and Christians, a man who became a saint, a Christian to the marrow, a genuine Christian! First he was a violent persecutor, then he became an apostle, a witness of Jesus Christ so brave that he was not afraid of suffering martyrdom. In the end, the Saul who wanted to kill those who proclaimed the Gospel gave his own life to proclaim it. ~ Pope Francis

After a while size means nothing. It gets back to whether you're making 100% rate of return on $10,000 or $100 million dollars. It doesn't make any difference. ~ Paul Tudor Jones

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life. ~ Jimmy Carter

To not extend forgiveness is to burn the bridge that we ourselves must cross. ~ Richard Paul Evans

Descartes' dictum: 'There is nothing so absurd or incredible that it has not been asserted by one philosopher or another. ~ Paul Johnson

When it comes to conserving wildlife and the environment, It's more important to be outspoken, than unspoken ~ Paul Oxton

I've now discovered that if you know what you want and try hard to achieve it, everyone else will try hard, too. ~ Paul Arden

Yea, much more those that seem to be the more feeble members of the body, are more necessary. And such as we think to be the less honourable members of the body, about these we put more abundant honour; and those that are our uncomely parts, have more abundant comeliness. But our comely parts have no need [ ... ~ Paul The Apostle

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen." ~ Paul Tillich

When I'm writing, I generally toy with an idea until it manifests itself - meaning a phrase or a tune comes into my head and eventually begins to jell. When something hits me, I write it down immediately. I don't wait, or it's gone. ~ Paul Anka

Are you from the media? Tell the prime minister to go and get fucked from Nelligan. We really enjoy doing this shit, dickhead. ~ Paul Parker

Maitake can achieve humongous sizes, sometimes up to 50 pounds per specimen! Massive maitake can form annually from dying dendritic tree roots for many years, even decades. ~ Paul Stamets

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect. ~ Paul Kingsnorth

As you grow older, Michael, you'll learn an important lesson - that most people spend their entire lives wishing for a second chance to do what they should have done right the first time. ~ Richard Paul Evans

At the beginning of your career, it's 'Who is Paul Newman?' and then it's 'Get me Paul Newman.' Then it's 'Get me a young Paul Newman.' Then it's 'Who is Paul Newman?' ~ Paul Newman

My firing instructor always said someone with good aim can kill. Someone with great aim doesn't have to. ~ Paul Krueger

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment. ~ Paul Haggis

When life closes a door, God opens a window. ~ Paul Smith

As long as we live beyond our means, we are destined to live beneath our means. ~ Ron Paul

Man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity ~ Paul Tillich

I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model ... ~ Paul Gauguin

Creation has been taken down a very different path than We [God] desired. In your world the value of the individual is constantly weighed against the survival of the system - whether political, economical, social, or religious - any system, actually. First one person, and then a few and finally even many are easily sacrificed for the good and ongoing existence of that system. In one form or another this lies behind every struggle for power every prejudice, every war, and every abuse of relationship. The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal. ~ Wm. Paul Young

I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe! ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

If you look at any of the greats, from people like Paul Newman and Robert Redford to, you know, Brad Pitt - to get any of the kinds of roles like the ones that they've gotten, or just to be a part of any of the kinds of movies they've made, would be the end-all for me. ~ Channing Tatum

The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes. The only adventure that is doomed from the start is the one we do not attempt. ~ Paul-Emile Victor

To see lonely, selfish, empty individuals transformed slowly but surely into warm, loving, wholesome, and happy people is to become aware of why Paul describes Christ as 'unsearchable riches'. ~ Ray Stedman

My brain was fine, but I did not feel like myself. My body was frail and weak - the person who could run half marathons was a distant memory - and that, too, shapes your identity. Racking back pain can mold an identity; fatigue and nausea can, as well. ~ Paul Kalanithi

Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the opposite of collectivism, the self affirmation of the self as part of a larger whole without regard to its character as an individual self. ~ Paul Tillich

My four friends were John Kerr, who became a star, Paul Newman, Jimmy Dean, and Jack Lemmon. ~ Dick Van Patten

Paul was even more difficult than Ben. But he was a normal "disturbed" child, not an alien. ~ Doris Lessing

I want to just obey the Constitution.The Constitution says only gold and silver can be legal tender. ~ Ron Paul

I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation. ~ Rand Paul

War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear? ~ F. Paul Wilson

An un-blossomed rose, in the garden we want to grow. ~ Paul Travis

When you get in the water with a wild animal, you're essentially giving yourself to that animal because, as humans, we're quite helpless and vulnerable in the water. You're at the seal's mercy. You're at the predator's mercy. ~ Paul Nicklen

Commitment is an act, not a word ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith ~ Paul Tillich

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back. ~ Paul McCartney

Our teacher says we're supposed to be colorblind. That's hard to do if you can see color, isn't it?"

"Yeah, I'd say so, but I think your teacher means don't make any assumptions based on color."

"Cross on the green and not in between. ~ Paul Beatty

There are two kinds of suffering in this life. That which pursues us and that which we doggedly pursue. ~ Richard Paul Evans