de bene esse: Paul Éluard

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Paul Éluard

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Paul Éluard, born 14 December 1895.

French poet born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel was one of the founders of the surrealist movement.

I CANNOT BE KNOWN

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 nights

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

In your eyes who reveal to us
Our endless solitude

Are no longer what they thought themselves to be

You cannot be known
Better than I know you.

- Happy Birthday Paul Éluard, born 14 December 1895.

French poet born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel who was one of the founders of the surrealist movement.

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