Rene Char Quotes

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

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  Risk, Luck, Dare

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

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  Attention, World, Merit

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• Develop your legitimate strangeness.

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  Strangeness

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

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  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.

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  Men, Able, Imagine

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

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• Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.

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  Virgins

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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.

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  Heart, Winter, Bird

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

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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. . . .

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  Love, Realization

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• I believe in the magic and authority of words.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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...

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  Knives, Today, Lips

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