by
Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard
Paul Klee
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): ENG GER LIT
Sur la pente fatale, le voyageur profite
De la faveur du jour, verglas et sans cailloux,
Et les yeux bleus d'amour, découvre sa saison
Qui porte à tous les doigts de grands astres en bague.
Sur la plage la mer a laissé ses oreilles
Et le sable creusé la place d'un beau crime.
Le supplice est plus dur aux bourreaux qu'aux victimes
Les couteaux sont des signes et les balles des larmes.
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "Paul Klee", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Julia Henning) , "Paul Klee", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , "Paulis Klee", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 72
Paul Klee
Language: English  after the French (Français)
On the fatal slope, the traveller takes advantage
of the favourable day - icy-smooth and no pebbles -
and with eyes blue with love, discovers his season
which wears large stars as rings on every finger.
On the beach the sea has left its ears
and the sand has hollowed out space for a fine crime.
Torture is harder on torturers than on victims;
knives are signs and bullets are teardrops.
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 72