A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams. Rene Char More Quotes by Rene Char More Quotes From Rene Char Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks. Rene Char dare risk luck What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience Rene Char merit attention world 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. Rene Char heart winter bird Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones. Rene Char virgins Develop your legitimate strangeness. Rene Char strangeness Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd. Rene Char imagine able men 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. Rene Char magic imagination reality I believe in the magic and authority of words. Rene Char magic authority believe How can we live without the unknown before us? Rene Char 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. Rene Char struggle heart writing Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal. Rene Char who-cares forgiveness men A poem is the realization of love. . . . Rene Char realization love What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it. Rene Char finest eternal seductive 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. Rene Char anxiety taste joy With my teethI have seized lifeUpon the knife of my youth.With my lips today,With my lips alone... Rene Char lips knives today For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen. Rene Char inheritance really-great hands It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state. Rene Char behind words your tough A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. Rene Char leave must proof poet
