Perse Quotes & Sayings

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

Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent. — Blaise Pascal

The only menace is inertia. — Saint-John Perse

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

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

Ember shook her head and looked down at me, her expression caught somewhere between a smile and a grimace. "Tell me my psychotic, soon-to-be-dead friend didn't just give you what I think she did."
I forced a somewhat pained smile. "I don't think I can answer that without crawling into a dark hole for the rest of the evening. — Julie Kagawa

And it is enough for the poet to be the guilty conscience of his time. — Saint-John Perse

No excuses. Just do the work. — Shalane Flanagan

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

I like All Saints. They make great leathers. I love Hugo Boss, especially the suits. I like James Perse for T-shirts, and Supra and Radii for sneakers. And God Is in the Details. — Marlon Wayans

I'm not going on a diet, I'm not trying to lose weight, because your insecurities are what make you different and if everyone looked the same, it'd be boring."
"I have the girls and they are like my family now. For every bad comment, there are 100 nice ones."
"When I was younger I got bullied about the way I looked and I thought once I was older it would stop. I hated going to school, but didn't know who to talk to about it. It knocked my confidence a lot. — Jesy Nelson

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

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

[The building of the transcontinental railway] was something truly earth-shaking and, whether or not there had been a dime in it for me, sooner or later I would have been out on the grade with my cameras. — William Henry Jackson

It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age. — Saint-John Perse

Master the attitude of gratitude and the pathway to abundance will open for you. — Pooja Ruprell

It's always nice to get out there and kind of put Boston College on the map, because we're not one of those schools that is seen nationally by everybody. — Rich Gunnell

Where there is a blanket of hate, uplift it with the strong arms of love. If there is pain, heal it with your kind words and gentle touch. In the face of anger, stay so calm and unfazed that anger leaves the room. — Pooja Ruprell

The poet is the one who breaks through our habits. — Saint-John Perse

His lost look of a man who realized that all this dying was going to be the only life he ever had. — Jeffrey Eugenides