Poetry Quote by René Char Download Open image ““A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proof.”” — René Char ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams. — Rene Char Copy Share Image
“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his… — Plato Copy Share Image
“but take away his poems and what does he have left? He wants to write more poems, enough to fill half the world.” — Nachoem M Wijnberg Copy Share Image
“It was useless trying to explain to Cecila that poetry wasn't a commodity, that it could never be bought or sold, that it was,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.” — Lucian of Samosata Copy Share Image
“There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them.” — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
“Whitman's poems present no trace of rhyme, save in a couple or so of chance instances. Parts of them, indeed, may be regarded as… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.” — D.A. Botta Copy Share Image
“Poetry wasn't written to be analysed: it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams. — Rene Char 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 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 back in… — Rene Char 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, he knows… — René Char 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 existent or… — Rene Char Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
