What is Saint-John Perse's central idea about poetry?
Poetry, for me, is the language of the world itself, an immense cosmogony where the word is born of the primal forces. It is not a mere edifice of sentiment, but a powerful invocation, a pact with the elemental. In 'Vents', one hears the breath of change, the spirit that sculpts continents and inspires human enterprise. Poetry is the utterance of man's passage, his wrestling with immensity, his kinship with the wind and the wave. We are the children of the wind, and our songs are echoes of its perpetual journey.
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