‘Freiheit ist Einsicht in die Notwendigkeit.’ (Frihet er innsikt i nødvendighet) G.W. Hegel (1770-1831)
Les mer»And found myself thinking: if it were nowadays, This is how Death would summon Everyman. Seamus Heaney A Call (1996)
Les mer»All agog at the plasterer on his ladder Skimming our gable and writing our name there With his trowel point, letter by strange letter. Seamus Heaney Alphabets (1987)
Les mer»History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme. Seamus Heaney The Cure at Troy (version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes, 1990)
Les mer»People will take balls, Balls will be lost always, little boy, And no one buys a ball back. John Berryman (1914-72) The Ball Poem (1948)
Les mer»The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primorose Hill and Sain John’s Wood Were builded over with pillars of gold; And there Jerusalem’s pillars stood. Jerusalem (1815)
Les mer»A robin red breast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a rage. Auguries of Innocence (c. 1803)
Les mer»Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy. William Blake The Four Zoas «Night the Second».
Les mer»Muss es sein? Es muss sein. Must it be? It must be. String Quartet in F Major, Opus 135, epigraph
Les mer»With your mercury mouth in the missionary times, And your eyes like smoke and your prayers like rhymes, And your silver cross, and your voice like chimes, Oh, who among them do they think could bury you? With your pockets well protected at last, And your streetcar visions which you place on the grass, And […]
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