For centuries they hadn’t seen gifts at Delphi as wonderful as those sent by the two brothers, the rival Ptolemaic kings. But now that they have them, the priests are nervous about the oracle. They’ll need all their experience to decide how to express it tactfully, which of the two— of two brothers like these—will […]
Les mer»Nu ruger Nat over Enge og alt i Mørke forgaar. Jeg lytter her fra min Rute, det tier saa tomt derute, det er som naar Klokken staar. Da hører jeg Røster kalde som op fra en Huldreby. Jeg vet det er mig de vil finde. Godnat da I to herinde! Jeg kommer igjen ved Gry. […]
Les mer»You lose yourself, you reappear You suddenly find you got nothing to fear Alone you stand with nobody near When a trembling distant voice, unclear Startles your sleeping ears to hear That somebody thinks They really found you. Bob Dylan It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Les mer»«It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.» Robert Francis Kennedy
Les mer»Human beings, as Rushdie put it in his essay «In Good Faith», written a year after the fatwa, «understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the unsayable; not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.» Kenan Malik siterer Salman Rushdie
Les mer»Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the […]
Les mer»And the town is frozen solid in a vice, Trees, walls, snow, beneath a glass. Over crystal, on slippery tracks of ice, the painted sleighs and I, together, pass. And over St Peter’s there are poplars, crows there’s a pale green dome there that glows, dim in the sun-shrouded dust. The field of heroes lingers […]
Les mer»How can you bear to look at the Neva? How can you bear to cross the bridges?. Not in vain am I known as the grieving one Since the time you appeared to me. The black angels’ wings are sharp, Judgment Day is coming soon, And raspberry-colored bonfires bloom, Like roses, in the snow. Anna […]
Les mer»My beast, my age, who will try to look you in the eye, and weld the vertebrae of century to century, with blood? Creating blood pours out of mortal things: only the parasitic shudder, when the new world sings. As long as it still has life, the creature lifts its bone, and, along the secret […]
Les mer»Brothers, let us glorify freedom’s twilight – the great, darkening year. Into the seething waters of the night heavy forests of nets disappear. O Sun, judge, people, your light is rising over sombre years Let us glorify the deadly weight the people’s leader lifts with tears. Let us glorify the dark burden of fate, power’s […]
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