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

January 1, 1970

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A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams. — René Char, as quoted in The French-American Review (1976) by Texas Christian University, p. 132.