Quotes by Paul Éluard

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True poetry must express the real world, but also our inner world and this transformed world that we have dreamed; that truth that is within us if our eyes are truly opened. If the real world has not absorbed the poet's head, he will never be able to return to the world anything but abstraction and confusion, formless dreams and absurd beliefs. His personal poetic reality will not stand before the poetic reality of the world.