Rene Char famous quotes

05-19-2025

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

#Risk #Luck #Dare
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.
-- Rene Char

#Heart #Winter #Bird
Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.
-- Rene Char

#Virgins
For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen.
-- Rene Char

#Hands #Inheritance #Really Great
With my teethI have seized lifeUpon the knife of my youth.With my lips today,With my lips alone...
-- Rene Char

#Knives #Lips #Today
I believe in the magic and authority of words.
-- Rene Char

#Believe #Magic #Authority
Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.
-- Rene Char

#Forgiveness #Men #Care
A poem is the realization of love. . . .
-- Rene Char

#Love #Realization
What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience
-- Rene Char

#Merit #Attention #World
How did writing come to me? Like birdâ€™s down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in the heart a struggle of firebrands, which has, still now, not ended.
-- Rene Char

#Struggle #Writing #Heart
How can we live without the unknown before us?
-- 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

#Men #Able #Imagine
A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.
-- Rene Char

#Dream #Poetry #Should
Develop your legitimate strangeness.
-- Rene Char

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