Goodreads Quote of the Day for Tuesday

Created: 2016-06-14 09:01 Updated: 2016-06-14 09:01 Notebook: Famous Quotes

I believe in the magic and authority of words.

René Char

In the early 1930s, popular French poet René Char (born June 14, 1907) rubbed elbows with Pablo Picasso and Albert Camus, but when World War II brought German soldiers to his country, he put down his pen and said goodbye to his friends. Char joined the French resistance in 1940, leading troops and commanding a parachute drop zone under the nom de guerre Captain Alexandre.


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