Rene Char Quotes

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

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

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.

Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.

Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.

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

Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.

Develop your legitimate strangeness.

How can we live without the unknown before us?

What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it.

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.

A poem is the realization of love. . . .

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.

With my teethI have seized lifeUpon the knife of my youth.With my lips today,With my lips alone...

For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

That which comes into the world to disturb nothing deserves neither respect nor patience.

For an inheritance to be really great the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

In action be primitive in foresight a strategist.