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Sonntag, 31. Mai 2015

Happy Birthday Saint-John Perse!

The only menace is inertia.

Ein Dementi ist nach den Spielregeln der hohen Politik ein halbes Eingeständnis einer ganzen Dummheit.

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

Diplomatie ist die Kunst, mit hundert Worten zu verschweigen, was man mit einem Wort sagen könnte.

A world to be born under your footsteps.

The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.

Favored by the favorable dream . . . I shall listen to the authority of the dream that mounts within me.

Happy birds, ah, may they extend towards us, from one shore to the other of heaven's ocean, that huge arc of painted wings that will assist and encircle us! May they bear the full honour of it among us by strength of soul!

At mid-height between sky and sea, between the upper and lower waters of eternity, clearing the way of eternity, they are mediators for us and strive with all their being to the utmost of being.

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