Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to story telling -- in prose and in poetry, in art and in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of June 29th
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It is the 180th day of the year, leaving 185 days remaining in 2022.
If you please, draw me a sheep.
He told stories of his first love. flying, with his second love, writing. His tales were poetic, captivating, and philosophical. As an aviator, he flew to explore the world in the hope it could bring people together.
Only the children know what they are looking for.
As a writer, he told about his personal experiences in the air, as in one of his earlier books, Wind, Sand and Stars. He also related the stories of other aviators, as in his second novel, Night Flight, and urged people to accept pleasure in the simple things in life.
I must endure the presence of caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
His best known work is the classic fable, Le Petit Prince, known in English as The Little Prince (All the quotations on this page come from that book.) It tells the fanciful tale of a pilot who crashes his plane far from civilization, and meets the prince, a young boy who has come to earth to explore because he is the only person, and thus the caretaker of, a tiny planet far away.
Only the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart.
The multi-layered tale weaves philosophy, myth, and magic into a textured tale of the faults and virtues of humankind. It praises imagination and a child's view of life and pleasure, while questioning why adults lose their joy as they age.
Grownups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
The Little Prince has been translated into dozens of languages, and every generation seems to find it anew.
Saint-Exupéry was presumed dead in July 1944, when his plane vanished during a war mission he was flying for the French resistance during World War II.
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