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Rene Daumal Quotes
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.
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Birth: | 16th March, 1908 |
Death: | 21st May, 1944 |
Nationality: | French |
Profession: | Poet, Spiritualist, Writer |
René Daumal was a French spiritual para-surrealist writer and poet. He was born in Boulzicourt, Ardennes, France. In his late teens his avant-garde poetry was published in France's leading journals, and in his early twenties, although courted by André Breton co-founded, as a counter to Surrealism and Dada, a literary journal, "Le Grand Jeu" with three friends, collectively known as the Simplists, including poet Roger Gilbert-Lecomte .
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