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Born in 1895 / Died in 1952 / France / French

Poems by Paul Eluard

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At the Window

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

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Curfew

... What else could we do, for the streets were forbidden us, ...

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Five Haiku

... Rolls a cigarette of air The mute girl talks: ...

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Head Against The Walls

... Rather than ignore With a safety pin quicker than your gibbets ...

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Hunted

... Reply to the black signs that misery makes to them ...

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I Cannot be Known

... Our endless solitude Are no longer what they thought themselves to be You cannot be known ...

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La courbe de tes yeux

... La courbe de tes yeux fait le tour de mon coeur, ...

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Lady Love

... As a stone against the skyShe will never close her eyes ...

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Other Children

... From the order of a child to that of an old man, ...

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The Absence

... I speak to you across plains My mouth is upon your pillow Both faces of the walls come meeting ...

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The Deaf and Blind

... Like the wind over terrible seas, like the wind That creeps slowly over every horizon ...

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The Human Face

... Well-powdered girls, quickly to their knees Their hands -- reaching for the fresh air -- ...

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The Nakedness of Truth (I know it well)

... But I am as real as my love and my despair ...

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The River

... Unimaginable water, my little boat, ...

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To Live

... I am young my blood rises over my ruins We have our hands to entwine Nothing can ever seduce better ...