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

René Char


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

René Char


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I believe in the magic and authority of words.

René Char

Tags: words resistance



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In my land we don't question someone who has been touched deeply.
There is no malign shadow over capsized boats.

René Char


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Eternity is not much longer than life.

René Char


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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.

René Char


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Avec celui que nous aimons, nous avons cessé de parler, et ce n'est pas le silence.
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Gdy z osobą kochaną przestajemy mówić, nie zapada cisza.

René Char


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There is only the one like me, the companion man or woman, who can wake me from my torpor, set off the poetry, hurl me against the limits of the old desert for me to triumph over it. No other. Neither sky nor privileged earth, now things which set you to trembling.

Torch, I only waltz with that one.

René Char


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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.

René Char

Tags: writing heart struggle bird firebrand the-library-is-on-fire



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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.

René Char

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