“That which comes into the world to disturb nothing deserves neither respect nor patience.”
Rene Char“That which comes into the world to disturb nothing deserves neither respect nor patience.”
Rene Char“For an inheritance to be really great the hand of the defunct must not be seen.”
Rene Char“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, Selected Poems“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, Selected Poems