Tuesday, December 18, 2007

News at Eleven: Etre poète, c'est avoir de l'appétit

pour un malaise dont la consommation, parmi les tourbillons de la totalité des choses existantes et pressenties, provoque, au moment de se clore, la félicité.
(1945)

To be a poet is to have an appetite for a discomfort whose consummation, among the whirlwinds of totality of things existing and foreseen, provokes, at the moment of closure, happiness.

from The Brooklyn Rail: René Char--Resistance in Every Way
also Great Regulars: The Companions in the Garden

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