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 Copy Share Image
A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams. — Rene Char Copy Share
“In my land we don't question someone who has been touched deeply. There is no malign shadow over capsized boats.” — René Char Copy Share
Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in… — Rene Char Copy Share
“The poet advises: 'Read me. Read me again.' He does not always come away unscathed from his page, but like the poor, he knows… — René Char Copy Share
To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or… — Rene Char Copy Share
“The poem is furious ascension; poetry, the game of arid riverbanks. I am a man of riverbanks – excavation and inflammation – not always… — René Char Copy Share
