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Saint-John Perse Quotes

A world to be born under your footsteps.

A world to be born under your footsteps.

Saint-John Perse
Girl, Baby, World
Saint-John Perse (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.351, Princeton University Press

The only menace is inertia.

Saint-John Perse
Laziness, Menace, Inertia

Followers of trails and of seasons, breakers of camp in the little dawn wind, seekers of watercourses over the wrinkled rind of the world, o seekers, o finders of reasons to be up and be gone.

Saint-John Perse
Wind, Dawn, Gone
Saint-John Perse, Mary Ann Caws (1982). “Selected Poems”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.

Saint-John Perse
Break Through, Poetry, Habit
Saint-John Perse, Luigi Pirandello, Henrik Pontoppidan, Salvatore Quasimodo (1971). “St.-John Perse, Luigi Pirandello, Henrik Pontoppidan, Salvatore Quasimodo”

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