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Saint-John Perse Quotes

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

Saint-John Perse

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: diplomat
Nationality: french
Birth: May 31, 1887 - September 20, 1975

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Age Enough Guilty Conscience Poet

He brought a sensibility and a hard-edged reasonableness to operating restaurants that had a lasting impact on me and still affects how I run all our restaurants today. The passing of 'Restaurant Man' - the original gangsta 'Restaurant Man,' my father - was the passing of an era. No one can replace him.

Father Today Man Me Impact Run

With 'Friday Night Lights,' we were encouraged to make it our own and improvise as much as we wanted.

Night Friday Lights Friday Night Own

Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.

History People Attention Moral Him

With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.

Culture Place Top Take Passing His

I feel completely fearless when I'm on stage. And also totally fearful. There's the fear that I'm not making a very smart career move sometimes, but there's the stronger belief that these things need to be said.

Fear Smart Fearless Feel Stronger

I just let the character speak to me and things appear.

Character Me Speak Things Just

It has never been a motivation thing. I'm a fighter. I always show up and give it my all.

Motivation Fighter Never Always Up

I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.

Change You President Seen Being Who

One has to create music with mass appeal and not something which is niche. With niche music, you will only go a small distance.

Music Small You Create Distance Go

The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and realism. The effort to reconcile the two is at the core of all my poetry.

Work Religion Poetry Effort Thought

I said I thought first I was on the stairs; then I remembered I was in the kitchen when he came in.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

Kitchen Thought Stairs Said First

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

Mistake Garden Country Build Big

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