2 Quotes & Sayings By Saint John Perse

Saint John Perse, born in 1887 in Persia, was a French poet and diplomat. He lived in the 1930s and 1940s in refuge in Switzerland. His poetry is dense, cryptic, and enchanting. The book, which he published in 1939 at the age of forty-one, is now considered one of the greatest works of twentieth-century French literature.