29 Quotes by René Char

Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.

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

A poem is the realization of love. . . .

With my teethI have seized lifeUpon the knife of my youth.With my lips today,With my lips alone...

For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it.

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.

Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.

How can we live without the unknown before us?