Perse Quotes

#1. He does manage the bookstore, which is currently my favorite place on earth." Her eyes glazed over. "All those books. If I married him, I could probably work there the rest of my life. Nothing would make me happier."
"What about love?" Ve asked.
"Oh," Harper said solemnly. "I love books. - Author: Heather Blake

#2. It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age. - Author: Saint-John Perse

#3. Elite fundamentalism has always been on the corporate side of things. - Author: Jeff Sharlet

#4. 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. - Author: Marlon Wayans

#5. 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 ... - Author: Saint-John Perse

#6. 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. - Author: Blaise Pascal

#7. 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. - Author: Pooja Ruprell

#8. Your mind must control, but you must have heart ... Give your feeling free. - Author: Vladimir Horowitz

#9. I've met the girl. She's a zero in my opinion but terrific-looking. I don't actually know that she's a zero. I mean she hardly said two words the night I met her. Just sat and smiled and smoked, so it isn't fair to say. - Author: J.D. Salinger

#10. 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. - Author: Saint-John Perse

#11. People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers. - Author: Stefan Sagmeister

#12. And it is enough for the poet to be the guilty conscience of his time. - Author: Saint-John Perse

#13. If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist. - Author: Steve Stockman

#14. As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that. - Author: Anne Rice

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

#16. 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. - Author: Saint-John Perse

#17. Master the attitude of gratitude and the pathway to abundance will open for you. - Author: Pooja Ruprell

#18. The poet is the one who breaks through our habits. - Author: Saint-John Perse

#19. A world to be born under your footsteps ... - Author: Saint-John Perse

#20. Physical courage is a great test. - Author: Oriana Fallaci

#21. 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. - Author: Saint-John Perse

#22. To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant. - Author: Sri Aurobindo

#23. Cargo pants freak me out. Too many pockets. I always forget where my wallet is. - Author: Matthew Gray Gubler

#24. Everyone falls apart now and then," Casey assures me. "But something I've noticed, even in my profession, is that people are like puzzles. You may break apart, but there's always someone that can put you back together. - Author: Micalea Smeltzer

#25. The only menace is inertia. - Author: Saint-John Perse