Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Rene Char

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French poet Rene Char.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

René Émile Char was a French poet and member of the French Resistance.

French - Poet | June 14, 1907 - February 19, 1988

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A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.

Rene Char

Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.

Rene Char

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Rene Char

How did writing come to me? Like bird’s down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in the heart a struggle of firebrands, which has, still now, not ended.

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

Rene Char

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

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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Develop your legitimate strangeness.

Rene Char

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

Rene Char

I believe in the magic and authority of words.

Rene Char

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

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

Rene Char

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