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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.

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

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

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