How can we live without the unknown before us?

- Rene Char

A poem is the realization of love. . . .

- Rene Char

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

- Rene Char

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

- Rene Char

Develop your legitimate strangeness.

- Rene Char

Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.

- Rene Char

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

- Rene Char

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 ag…

- Rene Char

I believe in the magic and authority of words.

- Rene Char