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Poesi
Qi (+)
The literal meaning of qi is «breath» of «energi» (etymologisk: the written character designates the steam produced by rice being cooked. Qi – noen…
Rawics (+)
Tro du meg! Hvert øyeblikk går det vi kaller «livet» over i «fortiden». Skulle livet være et solid legeme? Skulle «tidens gang» være å…
Weil II (+)
Dadaism, surrealism are extreme cases. They expressed the frenzy of the total license, the frenzy which takes hold of the mind when rejecting all…
Weil (+)
An essential feature of the first half of the twentieth century… This is one of those rare phenomena which seem to be really new…
Oscar Milosz (+)
It is possible to affirm, without any bias or any intention to indulge in paradoxes, that for nearly a hundred years the world has…
The Psalms (+)
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?…
Människosonens tillkommelse (+)
När I nu fån se «förödelsens styggelse», om vilken är talat genom profeten Daniel, stå på helig plats – den som läser detta, han…
Cavafy (+)
When they are roused Try to guard them, poet However few they are that can be held. The visions of your eroticism. Set them,…
Cavafy (+)
Walls Without consideration, without pity, without shame they have built great and high walls around me. And now I sit here and despair. I…
Cavafy (+)
Thermopylae Honor to those who in their lives have defined and guard their Thermopylae. Never stirring from duty; just and upright in all their…
Milosz on Yalta (+)
The images preserved by a cultural elite undoubtedly also have political significanse as they influence the decisions of the groups that govern, and it…
Arvtakerne (+)
De er ikke blitt bedre eller mer moderate. De er bare blitt mer raffinerte og smarte. Eldre dame i film om Andrej Sakharov
Borges on Time (+)
And yet, and yet … Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, are obvious acts of desperation and secret consolation. Our…
Borges (+)
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify…
Borges (+)
It is known that Whistler when asked how long it took him to paint one of his «nocturnes» answered: «All of my life.» With…
Piet Hein (+)
Den lyse nat – det klare hvælv som møder os i mindet Den er et tegn for Danmark selv dets åbenhed i sindet. Den…