Saint John Perse Quotes

A world to be born under your footsteps.

The only menace is inertia.

The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.

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.

Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.