by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard
Paul Klee
Language: French (Français)
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.
Text Authorship:
- by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, "Paul Klee", written 1926, appears in Capitale de la douleur, Paris, Éd. Gallimard, first published 1926 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Paul Klee", FP 161 no. 5 (1956), published 1957 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le Travail du peintre, no. 5, Éd. Max Eschig [sung text checked 1 time]
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.
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