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.
How can we live without the unknown before us? - Rene Char
How can we live without the unknown before us?
- Rene Char
What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience - Rene Char
What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience
A poem is the realization of love. . . . - Rene Char
A poem is the realization of love. . . .
Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd. - Rene Char
Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones. - Rene Char
Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.
Develop your legitimate strangeness. - Rene Char
Develop your legitimate strangeness.
Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks. - Rene Char
Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.
I believe in the magic and authority of words. - Rene Char
I believe in the magic and authority of words.
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
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…
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