Rene Char Quotes

• Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.

  René Char

  Risk, Luck, Dare

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• What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience

  René Char

  Attention, World, Merit

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• Develop your legitimate strangeness.

  René Char

  Extrañeza

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• A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.

  René Char

  Dream, Poetry, Should

  "The French-American Review" by Texas Christian University, p. 132, 1976.

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• Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.

  René Char

  Men, Able, Imagine

  René Char (1954). “Leaves of Hypnos (extracts): And Lettera Amorosa”

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• Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.

  René Char

  Heart, Winter, Bird

  René Char (2004). “This Smoke that Carried Us: Selected Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

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• Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.

  René Char

  Vírgenes

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• Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.

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  Reality, Imagination, Magic

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• How can we live without the unknown before us?

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  René Char, Mary Ann Caws (1992). “Selected Poems of René Char”, p.39, New Directions Publishing

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• A poem is the realization of love. . . .

  René Char

  Love, Realization

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• I believe in the magic and authority of words.

  René Char

  Believe, Magic, Authority

  "This smoke that carried us". Book by René Char, 2004.

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• To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or forfeit, causes, as the taste dies, joy.

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  Joy, Anxiety, Taste

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• How did writing come to me? Like bird’s down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in the heart a struggle of firebrands, which has, still now, not ended.

  René Char

  Struggle, Writing, Heart

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• What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it.

  René Char

  Seductive, Finest, Eternal

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• Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.

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  Forgiveness, Men, Who Cares

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• For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

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  Hands, Inheritance, Really Great

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• With my teethI have seized lifeUpon the knife of my youth.With my lips today,With my lips alone...

  René Char

  Knives, Today, Lips

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