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Saint-John Perse

British  
/ ˈsɪndʒən ˈpɜːs /

noun

  1. See Perse

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Appointed last fall as India’s ambassador to the United States, Navtej Sarna carries on the noble tradition of the writer-diplomat, like Nobel Prize-winning poets Pablo Neruda and Saint-John Perse before him.

From Washington Post Mar. 29, 2017

“So many poets have the courage to look into the abyss,” Kenneth Koch wrote in an appreciation of the French poet and diplomat Saint-John Perse, “but Perse had the courage to look into happiness.”

From New York Times Oct. 18, 2016

By this standard, France's Saint-John Perse was a giant from the beginning, for he wrote of the oceans, the deserts, the globe, and of a timeless Man.

From Time Magazine Archive

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