Saint-John Perse Quotes

• 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

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• The only menace is inertia.

  Saint-John Perse

  Laziness, Menace, Inertia

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• 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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• 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

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