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René Char
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“I believe in the magic and authority of words.”
René Char (1907–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Message as a member of the French resistance, to his superiors in London, insisting that certain codewords "The library is on fire" be changed after a disastrous parachute drop which set a forest on fire and alerted the…
“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 (1907–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A statement written soon after the end of World War II, as quoted in René Char : This Smoke That Carried Us : Selected Poems (2004) edited by Susanne Dubroff
“Un poète doit laisser des traces de son passage, non des preuves. Seules les traces font rêver.”
René Char (1907–1988) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The French-American Review (1976) by Texas Christian University, p. 132
“With my teeth I have seized life Upon the knife of my youth. With my lips today, With my lips alone…”
René Char (1907–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mute Game", as translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson in Guernica : a magazine of art & politics (June 2007)