Rene Char

Quotes by Rene Char

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Poet and resistance member · French · 1907–1988

French poet and resistance member (1907–1988)

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“I believe in the magic and authority of words.”

“In action be primitive in foresight a strategist.”

“In action be primitive in foresight a strategist.”

“I believe in the magic and in the authority of words”

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

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

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“In action be primitive in foresight a strategist.”
— Rene Char
action

“For an inheritance to be really great the hand of the defunct must not be seen.”
— Rene Char
goodness giving

“That which comes into the world to disturb nothing deserves neither respect nor patience.”
— Rene Char
progress

“I believe in the magic and authority of words.”
— René Char
resistance words

“I believe in the magic and in the authority of words”
— René Char
magic words

“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...”
— René Char, Selected Poems
desire light shadow

“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
bird firebrand heart struggle

“In action be primitive in foresight a strategist.”
— Rene Char
action

“For an inheritance to be really great the hand of the defunct must not be seen.”
— Rene Char
goodness giving