"I believe in the magic and authority of words."

"Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a batt…"

"Un poète doit laisser des traces de son passage, non des preuves. Seules les traces font rêver."

"With my teeth I have seized life Upon the knife of my youth. With my lips today, With my lips alone…"

"Char embodies the ideal of the poet fighting for the nobility of the world — the leader of a small resistance group d…"

"In that poem "keeping vigil" for René Char means writing the poem. The poem is the vigil. Sometimes one wants to hold…"

"History has always felt to me an immense resource for art, and poetry as a place where history can be kept alive-not …"

"I think of the poetry of René Char and all he must have seen and suffered that has brought him to speak only of sedgy…"

"The cries of a dying dog are to be blotted out as best I can. René Char you are a poet who believes in the power of b…"

"Non, La Harpe au Serpent n'a jamais ressemble; Le Serpent siffle, et La Harpe est sifflé."