Saint-John Perse

France
31 May 1887 // 20 Sep 1975
Poet, Diplomat

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Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays