René Daumal citations

René Daumal, né à Boulzicourt, Ardennes le 16 mars 1908 et mort à Paris, le 21 mai 1944, est un poète, critique, essayiste, indianiste, écrivain et dramaturge français. Wikipedia

✵ 16. mars 1908 – 21. avril 1944

René Daumal: 14 citations 0 J'aime

René Daumal Citations

“Ce qui jaillira de ce beau massacre pourrait bien être plus réel et tangible qu'on le croit, une statue du vide qui se met en marche, bloc de lumière pleine. Une lumière inconnue trouera les fronts, ouvrant un nouvel œil mortel, une lumière unique, celle qui signifie : « non! »”

René Daumal

Il est ici question des conséquences d'une poésie révolutionnaire mise en exergue notamment par les surréalistes.
Le Grand Jeu, n°4 (non paru), 1932

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“La Parole essentielle n'est […] pas affectée par les formes verbales qui tendent à l'exprimer. Car elle ne s'exprime pas directement elle-même; elle est le Mot-de-Passe, la porte libératrice qui permet aux élans du chaos lyrique de trouver, par l'intermédiaire de l'image, les mots qui leur conviennent. La Parole ouvre la bouche du poète; et c'est le souffle qui parle à sa place, avec autant d'approximation que l'instrument humain le permet.”

René Daumal

Le Contre Ciel, 1954

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René Daumal: Citations en anglais

“There is an art to finding your way in the lower regions by the memory of what you have seen when you were higher up. When you can no longer see, you can at least still know...”

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René Daumal livre Mount Analogue

Mount Analogue (1952)

“What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.”

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René Daumal livre A Night of Serious Drinking

Foreword
A Night of Serious Drinking (1938)
Contexte: Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

“You cannot always stay on the summits. You have to come down again...”

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René Daumal livre Mount Analogue

Mount Analogue (1952)

“My observations are those of a beginner.”

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René Daumal livre Mount Analogue

Mount Analogue (1952)
Contexte: My observations are those of a beginner. As they are completely fresh in my mind and concern the first difficulties a beginner encounters, they may be more useful to beginners making their first ascents than treatises written by professionals. These are no doubt more methodical and complete, but are intelligible only after a little preliminary experience. The entire aim of these notes is to help the beginner acquire this preliminary experience a little faster.

“Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.”

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René Daumal

Vol. 2, Essais et Notes
The Lie of the Truth (1938)

“Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.”

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René Daumal

Vol. 2, Essais et Notes
The Lie of the Truth (1938)

“Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.”

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“Poetry Black, Poetry White,” no. 19-20, Fontaine (Paris, March/April 1942)

“Alpinism is the art of climbing mountains by confronting the greatest dangers with the greatest prudence. Art is used here to mean the accomplishment of knowledge in action.”

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René Daumal livre Mount Analogue

Mount Analogue (1952)

“So what’s the point? Only this: what is above knows what is below, what is below does not know what is above. While climbing, take note of all the difficulties along your path. During the descent, you will no longer see them, but you will know that they are there if you have observed carefully.”

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René Daumal livre Mount Analogue

Mount Analogue (1952)

“Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think…. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.”

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René Daumal

Vol. 2, Essais et Notes
The Lie of the Truth (1938)

“Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are cheques drawn on insufficient funds.”

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René Daumal livre A Night of Serious Drinking

Foreword
A Night of Serious Drinking (1938)

“It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content … it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.”

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Foreword
A Night of Serious Drinking (1938)

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