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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ren-char/to-be-a-poet-is-to-have-an-appetite-for-a-certain-anxiety-which-when/)

[Rene Char](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ren-char/)

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## More by René Char

> [“Midnight is not in everyman's reach.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ren-char/midnight-is-not-in-everyman-s-reach/)

[René Char](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ren-char/)

> [A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ren-char/a-poet-should-leave-traces-of-his-passage-not-proofs-traces-alone/)

[Rene Char](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ren-char/)

> [How can we live without the unknown before us?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ren-char/how-can-we-live-without-the-unknown-before-us/)

[Rene Char](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ren-char/)

> [“In my land we don't question someone who has been touched deeply. There is no malign shadow over capsized boats.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ren-char/in-my-land-we-don-t-question-someone-who-has-been-touched-deeply/)

[René Char](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ren-char/)

> [Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ren-char/be-gful-to-the-man-who-cares-nothing-for-your-remorse-you-are-his/)

[Rene Char](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ren-char/)

> [“Ihminen vailla puutteita on vuori vailla rotkoja.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ren-char/ihminen-vailla-puutteita-on-vuori-vailla-rotkoja/)

[René Char](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ren-char/)

> [Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ren-char/imagination-consists-in-expelling-from-reality-several-incomplete/)

[Rene Char](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ren-char/)

> [“A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proof.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ren-char/a-poet-should-leave-traces-of-his-passage-not-proof/)

[René Char](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ren-char/)

> [“The poet advises: 'Read me. Read me again.' He does not always come away unscathed from his page, but like the poor, he knows…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ren-char/the-poet-advises-read-me-read-me-again-he-does-not-always-come-away/)

[René Char](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ren-char/)

> [To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ren-char/to-be-a-poet-is-to-have-an-appetite-for-a-certain-anxiety-which-when/)

[Rene Char](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ren-char/)

> [A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ren-char/a-poet-must-leave-traces-of-his-passage-not-proof/)

[Rene Char](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ren-char/)

> [Develop your legitimate strangeness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ren-char/develop-your-legitimate-strangeness/)

[Rene Char](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ren-char/)

> [“Lucidity is the wound closest to the sun.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ren-char/lucidity-is-the-wound-closest-to-the-sun/)

[Rene Char](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ren-char/)

> [“The poem is furious ascension; poetry, the game of arid riverbanks. I am a man of riverbanks – excavation and inflammation – not always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ren-char/the-poem-is-furious-ascension-poetry-the-game-of-arid-riverbanks-i-am/)

[René Char](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ren-char/)

> [Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ren-char/each-act-is-virgin-even-the-repeated-ones/)

[Rene Char](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ren-char/)

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