Saint-John Perse Professions : PoetBorn : May 31, 1887Died : September 20, 1975 Browse All Authors Top 9 quotes by Saint-John Perse A world to be born under your footsteps. Saint-John Perse girlbabyworld The only menace is inertia. Saint-John Perse inertiamenacelaziness The poet is the one who breaks through our habits. Saint-John Perse break-throughhabitpoetry 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 dawngonewind In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist. Saint-John Perse creationpoettruthmind Astronomers have been bewildered by the theory of an expanding universe, but there is no less expansion in the moral infinite of the universe of man. As far as the frontiers of science are pushed back, over the extended arc of these frontiers one will hear the poet's hounds on the chase. Saint-John Perse willmanuniversescience The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint. Saint-John Perse manpoetryagemen Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment. Saint-John Perse neverpoetrygoalbeauty It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age. Saint-John Perse conscienceguiltyenoughage Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poetAll Authors
