On the absence without desire
On naked solitude
On the steps of death
I write your name
"Liberté", Paul Éluard
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Surrealism and ecstasy (1933)
Le phénomène de l'extase, photomontage de Dalí, Brassaï, Breton et Éluard (1933); publié dans Minotaure, n° 3-4, décembre 1933
The Phenomenon of Ecstasy, is a photomontage built in a spiral: it is made up of 32 photos organized in a labyrinth of photos which wind up, drawing the eye in a hypnotic way towards the central photo, a portrait of a woman by Brassaï. This photo was part of a series of…
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Le miroir d'un instant series, Emmanuelle Becker
ce qui a été compris n'existe plus,
l'oiseau a été confondu avec le vent,
le paradis avec sa vérité,
l'homme avec sa réalité.
What was once understood no longer exists,
The bird was mistaken for a breeze,
Paradise is mistaken for truth,
Man is mistaken with his reality.
Paul Éluard (1895-1952)
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Paul Eluard
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To sleep, with the moon in one eye
and the sun in the other,
Love in your mouth,
a lovely bird in your hair,
Adorned like the fields,
the woods, the routes, the sea,
around the whole world so lovely and adorned.
Paul Éluard, from "Sequence", 20 Short Poems from Capital of Pain
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PAUL ELUARD - Bonne justice
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Paul Eluard, “The Arms of Sorrow (in memory of Lucien Legros*, shot for his 18th birthday)”, Selected Poems (trans. Gilbert Bowen)
(*note on context: ”Lucien Legros, a student of seventeen, was arrested after a school demonstration in April 1942 and sentenced to forced labour by a Vichy French court. He was then handed over to the Gestapo and shot as a hostage after numerous promises of freedom and threats of execution“.)
(in the poem, the excerpt above is written from the point of view of Lucien’s’ mother -- my addition)
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Paul Eluard - Une leçon de morale
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“Ci sono altri mondi, ma sono in questo.
Ci sono altre vite, ma sono in te.”
.🦋.
🔸Paul Éluard
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Le cratère d'une couronne d'air pur
Sur ta chevelure folle
Mille bouffées d'écume entre les lèvres du soleil
Ou l'aile battante de ton sang
Donne ta force ta chaleur
L'été massif brutal amer
De tes paumes et de ta bouche
Donne ta fatigue limpide
Donne ta douceur ta confiance
Dans l'étendue de tes yeux
Il y a tantôt un château charmant
Ouvert comme un papillon à tous les vents
Tantôt une masure terrible
Une dernière caresse
Destinée à nous séparer
Tantôt le vin tantôt une rivière
Close comme un essaim d'abeilles
Viens là docile viens oublier
Pour que tout recommence.
~ Paul Eluard
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Leonora era un misto di furore italiano, eleganza scandalosa, capriccio e passione. Max Ernst
Ph Paul Eluard, Leonora Carrington e Max Ernst
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Paul Éluard
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Le chat, Valentine Hugo, 1937
Illustration for Les animaux et leurs hommes, les hommes et leurs animaux (Animals and their Men, Men and their Animals) by Paul Eluard
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« Un rêve sans étoiles est un rêve oublié »
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André Breton, Nusch Eluard, Valentine Hugo, Paul Eluard
Exquisite Corpse
c. 1930
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Paul Eluard’s personal copy of L'Immaculée Conception (cover details)
André Breton, Paul Eluard, Salvador Dalí, Paul Bonet
Éditions Surréalistes, Paris, 1930
Binding by Paul Bonet, 1941-42
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