Top 25 Saint John Perse Quotes

#1. The only menace is inertia.

Saint-John Perse

#2. The simplest aspect of self-enquiry is to just hold onto the sense I AM, the sense of Being. Keep the sense of "I" or "I AM" by itself. Everyone can do this exercise - it brings immediate results.

Mooji

#3. I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.

John Lee Hooker

#4. 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

#5. A world to be born under your footsteps ...

Saint-John Perse

#6. The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.

Saint-John Perse

#7. Who are you?" I asked the kid with my eyes when I finally found my voice.
"I'm Gavin Morgan, who the hell are you?

Tara Sivec

#8. The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures.

Elizabeth Lesser

#9. It's harder being a woman director because on the whole women don't have husbands or boyfriends who are willing to be wives

Jane Campion

#10. 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

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

Saint-John Perse

#12. And it is enough for the poet to be the guilty conscience of his time.

Saint-John Perse

#13. I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on news stories. But I know a lot of people, and know that there is no such thing as stark good and evil. Isn't it possible there is the same amount of evil everywhere?

Marjane Satrapi

#14. Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

Sarah Dessen

#15. 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

#16. George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.

Will Rogers

#17. Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi.

Marco Van Basten

#18. If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.

Adam McKay

#19. 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

#20. I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

Nigel Kneale

#21. Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word.

Zane Grey

#22. Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.

Andy Stanley

#23. She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them-an ache of longing to pull them close and hold them tight against her.

Anne Tyler

#24. Fashion absolutely matters, but it doesn't matter absolutely.

Claudia Shear

#25. It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

Saint-John Perse

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