Rene Char quotes
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“Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.”
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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.”
-- Rene CharSource : René Char (2004). “This Smoke that Carried Us: Selected Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)
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“For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen.”
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“With my teethI have seized lifeUpon the knife of my youth.With my lips today,With my lips alone...”
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“I believe in the magic and authority of words.”
-- Rene CharSource : "This smoke that carried us". Book by René Char, 2004.
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“Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.”
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“What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience”
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“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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“How can we live without the unknown before us?”
-- Rene CharSource : René Char, Mary Ann Caws (1992). “Selected Poems of René Char”, p.39, New Directions Publishing
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“Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.”
-- Rene CharSource : René Char (1954). “Leaves of Hypnos (extracts): And Lettera Amorosa”
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“A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.”
-- Rene CharSource : "The French-American Review" by Texas Christian University, p. 132, 1976.
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“Develop your legitimate strangeness.”
-- Rene Char
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