"Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks."
"To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or forfeit, causes, as the taste dies, joy."
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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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