Saint-John Perse famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A world to be born under your footsteps...
-- Saint-John Perse

#Girl #Baby #World
The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.
-- Saint-John Perse

#Poetry #Poet #Habit
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

What are you doing?" "I'm going to enjoy a long overdue make-out session with my girl. That's what I'm doing." I explained, stepping into the room and closing the door behind me with one shove of my foot.
Girl, there ain't a boy in this town who can hold a candle to Beau Vincent with his shirt off.
Blaire, This was my grandmotherâ€™s. My fatherâ€™s mother. She came to visit me before she passed away. I have fond memories of her visits and when she passed on she left this ring to me. In her will I was told to give it to the woman who completes me. She said it was given to her by my grandfather who passed away when my dad was just a baby but that sheâ€™d never loved another the way sheâ€™d loved him. He was her heart. You are mine. This is your something old. I love you, Rush
It's late at night and I can't sleep. Missing you just runs too deep. Oh I can't breathe, thinking of your smile. Every kiss I can't forget, this aching heart ain't broken yet. Oh God I wish I could make you see Cause I know this flame isn't dying So nothing can stop me from trying Baby you know that Maybe it's time for miracles Cause I ain't giving up on love You know that maybe it's time for miracles Cause I ain't giving up on love No I ain't giving up on us
The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.
Just shred baby, shred.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.

Saint-John Perse famous quotes

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