29 Quotes by René Char

Ne t'attarde pas à l'ornière des résultats. (Don't linger in the rut of success)

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.

Les mots qui vont surgir savent de nous ce que nous ignorons d'eux.

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.

I believe in the magic and authority of words.

there is no absence that cannot be replaced

You only fight well for causes you yourself have shaped, with which you identify—and burn.

The oriole entered the capital of dawn. The sword of his song closed the sad bed.Everything forever ended.

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.