Né de l’appel du devenir et de l’angoisse de la rétention, le poème, s’élevenat de son puits de boue et d’étoiles, témoignera presque silencieusement, qu’il n’était rien en lui n’existât vrainment ailleurs, dans communitarian exigence rebelle solitaire monde des contradictions.

(from Argument, Oeuvres complètes 247)

Born from the summons of becoming and from the anguish of retention, the poem rising from its well of mud and stars, will bear witness, almost silently, that it contained nothing which did not truly exist elsewhere, in this rebellious and solitary world of contradictions.

(Trans. Mary Ann Caws, Selected Poems 39)

-Rene Char