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Auden (+)
To us he is no more a person now but a whole climate of opinion. W. H. Auden In memory of Sigmund Freud (1940)
Før solhverv. Hans Jæger in memoriam (+)
I Der går en stor november over jorden. Det er november venner, og vi fryser; der blåser frossen tåke inn fra fjorden, og uten…
Auden (+)
They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on…
Auden (+)
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is…
Auden (+)
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum…
Austen (+)
Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is part of an Englishman’s constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that…
Mer Proust (+)
Love is space and time made directly perceptible to the heart Proust
Proust (+)
We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we…
The Fog (+)
The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city, where the lamps glimmered like carbuncles; and through the muffle and smother of…
Heller (+)
Whether a prophet is true or false does not depend upon the correctness of his predictions. It depends upon the purity and sincerity of…
Superstitio (+)
Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the pyche than skepticism. J. W. Goethe
The Road (+)
They began to come upon from time to time small cairns of rock by the roadside. They were signs in gypsy language, lost patterns.…
Eliot (+)
And the wind shall say: «Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.» T.S. Eliot:…
Prayer to the Father (+)
Most indulgent Father, who dwellest in the height of heights, hear thou the vows of thy family, exiled here on earth, whom thou by…
Frans av Assisi (+)
Francis was not impressed by the Crusaders, whose sacrilegious brutality horrified him. They were entirely too fond of taunting and abusing their prisoners of…