Rene Char
Rene Char
René Charwas a 20th-century French poet and member of the French Resistance...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth14 June 1907
CountryFrance
Rene Char quotes about
hands inheritance really-great
For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen.
poet traces
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
love realization
A poem is the realization of love. . . .
knives lips today
With my teethI have seized lifeUpon the knife of my youth.With my lips today,With my lips alone...
seductive finest eternal
What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it.
joy anxiety taste
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.
reality imagination magic
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.
virgins
Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.
believe magic authority
I believe in the magic and authority of words.
How can we live without the unknown before us?
strangeness
Develop your legitimate strangeness.
men able imagine
Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
forgiveness men care
Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.
dream poetry should
A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.