“What a space between men their spiritual natures create! A girl’s reverie isolates her from me, and how shall I enter it? What can one know of a girl that passes, slow steps homeward, out of thoughts, she can form an empire, locked up in her language, in the singing echoes of her memory. Born yesterday of the volcanoes, of greenswards, of brine of the sea, she walks here already half divine.”

French writer, poet, journalist and aviator

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was a French writer, poet, journalist, and aviator. He is best known as the author of The Little Prince. His work combines literary writing with the experience of flight, which shaped both his reputation and the tone of his best-known book. He is remembered for prose that moves between travel, reflection, and the wider human concerns that appear in his writing.