Top 33 Rene Char Quotes

#1. 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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Rene Char Quotes #123754
#2. In the darkness of our lives, there is not one place for Beauty. The whole place is for Beauty.

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Rene Char Quotes #173893
#3. 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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Rene Char Quotes #263660
#4. No man, unless he be dead in living, can feel at anchor in this life.

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Rene Char Quotes #274256
#5. 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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Rene Char Quotes #388493
#6. Eternity is not much longer than life.

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Rene Char Quotes #462946
#7. What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it.

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Rene Char Quotes #497784
#8. Lucidity is the wound closest to the sun.

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Rene Char Quotes #592956
#9. The poet advises: 'Read me. Read me again.'
He does not always come away unscathed from
his page, but like the poor, he knows how to
make use of an olive's eternity.

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Rene Char Quotes #598632
#10. A poem is the realization of love ...

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Rene Char Quotes #830691
#11. I believe in the magic and authority of words.

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Rene Char Quotes #907716
#12. Children and geniuses know that there is no bridge, only the water that lets itself be crossed.

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Rene Char Quotes #950770
#13. In my land we don't question someone who has been touched deeply.
There is no malign shadow over capsized boats.

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Rene Char Quotes #1044688
#14. For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

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Rene Char Quotes #1085419
#15. A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proof.

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Rene Char Quotes #1116393
#16. Cheat at this game.

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Rene Char Quotes #1213348
#17. You only fight well for causes you yourself have shaped, with which you identify - and burn.

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Rene Char Quotes #1229532
#18. We are being torn apart between the avidity for knowing and the despair of having known. The goad will not renounce its sting and we our hope.

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Rene Char Quotes #1289223
#19. Imagination consists in expelling from reality many incomplete persons, making use of the magical and subversive powers of desire, to obtain their return in the form of a completely satisfying presence. This, then, is the inextinguishable, uncreated reality.

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Rene Char Quotes #1290765
#20. Companions in pathos,who barely murmur,go with your lamp spent and return the jewels. A new mystery sings in your bones. Cultivate your legitimate strangeness.

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Rene Char Quotes #1362727
#21. The oriole entered the capital of dawn. The sword of his song closed the sad bed.
Everything forever ended.

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Rene Char Quotes #1395575
#22. What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience

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Rene Char Quotes #1500464
#23. Midnight is not in everyman's reach.

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Rene Char Quotes #1529086
#24. Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.

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Rene Char Quotes #1536171
#25. 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.

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Rene Char Quotes #1574438
#26. 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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Rene Char Quotes #1575838
#27. How can we live without the unknown before us?

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Rene Char Quotes #1603037
#28. Desire, desire which knows, we draw no advantage from our shadows except from some veritable sovereignties accompanied by invisible flames, invisible chains, which, coming to light, step after step, cause us to shine.

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Rene Char Quotes #1629649
#29. I believe in the magic and in the authority of words

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Rene Char Quotes #1644774
#30. Develop your legitimate strangeness.

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Rene Char Quotes #1651499
#31. With my teeth
I have seized life
Upon the knife of my youth.
With my lips today,
With my lips alone ...

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Rene Char Quotes #1665942
#32. Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.

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Rene Char Quotes #1686112
#33. Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.

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Rene Char Quotes #1762452

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