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I Carry You Within Me | Art Print

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The words “I carry you inside me like a wounded bird” are by French poet Louis Aragon, from his celebrated poem "Il n’y a pas d’amour heureux". Written amid the upheaval of the Second World War, it considers a love shaped by fragility, absence and defiance. In time, the poem travelled beyond the page: Georges Brassens set it to music and sang it, followed later by Françoise Hardy, giving the words a lasting place in the public imagination. The line stays with you, tender and unresolved, like something left unsaid yet deeply felt. We couldn’t help turning it into an image.

Some words settle deep within you. This one came with a bird. We wanted to make the sentence into something you could live alongside and hang in your home. It sits quietly on the wall, without demanding attention.

The woman in the image cradles the bird as if keeping a secret. The colours are warm, never brash. Symbolic, yet not sombre. It’s a work about tenderness and grief, perhaps even love. We won’t try to explain it. We made it, and to be honest, we’re still reflecting on it ourselves.

There is no happy love
We never truly possess anything,
Neither our strength, nor our weakness
Nor our heart.
And when we open our arms
Our shadow is that of a cross.
And when we try to embrace
Happiness, we crush it.
Our life is a strange and painful divorce.
There is no happy love.


Like warriors who are now disarmed,
Having been groomed for greater glory –
Why bother getting up in the morning?
If we find ourselves in the evening
Still not knowing what we’re here for?
Repeat these words and hold back your tears.
There is no happy love.


My dear sweet love tears me apart;
I carry it inside me like a wounded bird.
And people don’t know, as they watch us go by,
That these words I have spun for you die
As soon as they meet your eyes.
There is no happy love.


It’s already too late to learn how to live,
Let our hearts mourn together at night.
For the least little song we pay with sadness
For each thrill we pay with regret
Even a sweet melody we pay with weeping.
There is no happy love.


There is no love without pain
There is no love that cannot be bruised
There is no love that cannot fade
Even the love of your country.
There is no love without tears.
There is no happy love.

But this love is ours; for both of us!

Louis Aragon, 1946
Translation, Dora and Patricia Daniel, 2015


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