Poems and seminal lectures by the people's poet of Europe, director of the Resistance writers of northern France during WWII record Eluard's tributes1) to artists, friends who frequented Paris during the Spanish Civil war, during and after the two World Wars; 2) to the women who shared his life and his search for a language to overcome poverty and power politics responsible for devastating war (lyrical poems)3) to better communication and relations among all people