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Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.

René Char

With my teeth
I have seized life
Upon the knife of my youth.
With my lips today,
With my lips alone…

René Char

René Char

René Char

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Born: June 14, 1907

Died: February 19, 1988 (aged 80)

Bio: René Char was a 20th-century French poet.

Known for:

Fureur et mystère (1948)
Selected poems of René Char
The Brittle Age: And, Returning Upland
Les Matinaux (1950)
Lettera amorosa (1953)

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