Antoine de Saint-Exupery, b. 1900.

Here’s a Semicolon review of Saint-Exupery’s Wind, Sand and Stars.

A poem, Generation to Generation by Saint-Exupery.

Wikipedia on The Little Prince.

From The Little Prince:

Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu’avec le cÅ“ur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Les hommes ont oublié cette vérité, dit le renard. Mais tu ne dois pas l’oublier. Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé.
“Men have forgotten this truth,” said the fox. “But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.