A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams. — Rene Char Dream Copy Share Image
“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 Image
Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal. — Rene Char Care Copy Share Image
Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them… — Rene Char Desire Copy Share Image
“The poet advises: 'Read me. Read me again.' He does not always come away unscathed from his page, but like the poor,… — René Char Books Copy Share Image
To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things… — Rene Char Anxiety Copy Share Image
“The poem is furious ascension; poetry, the game of arid riverbanks. I am a man of riverbanks – excavation and inflammation –… — René Char Poetry Copy Share Image
How did writing come to me? Like bird’s down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in the heart a… — Rene Char Bird Copy Share Image
“With my teeth I have seized life Upon the knife of my youth. With my lips today, With my lips alone...” — René Char Life Copy Share Image
Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd. — Rene Char Ability Copy Share Image
“Children and geniuses know that there is no bridge, only the water that lets itself be crossed.” — René Char Children Copy Share Image
“Desire, desire which knows, we draw no advantage from our shadows except from some veritable sovereignties accompanied by invisible flames, invisible chains,… — René Char Desire Copy Share Image
“There is only the one like me, the companion man or woman, who can wake me from my torpor, set off the… — René Char Poetry Copy Share Image
For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen. — Rene Char Hands Copy Share Image
