"Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks."
"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."
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Source: René Char, Mary Ann Caws (1992). “Selected Poems of René Char”, p.39, New Directions Publishing
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