Saint-John Perse
Britishnoun
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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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