The greatest curse is time, elongated time. Not today-tomorrow or eternal time which you, my God, carry like a load on your shoulders but the seconds that flow slowly like the sap in deeprooted trees. Your vengeance must wait a thousand years for one day. Jacob Glatstein 1.v translated from Yiddish by Ruth Whitman
Les mer»The Lord is full of compassion and mercy: longsuffering, and of great goodness. He will not always be chiding: neither keepeth he his anger for ever. Psalm 103, v.8
Les mer»Thou shalt break the ships of the sea; through the east-wind. Psalm 48, v. 6
Les mer»A tiger comes to mind. The twilight here Exalts the vast and busy Library And seems to set the bookshelves back in gloom; Innocent, ruthless, bloodstained, sleek It wanders through its forest and its day Printing a track along the muddy banks Of sluggish streams whose names it does not know (In its world there […]
Les mer»Turn us again, O God; shew the light of thy coutenance, and we shall be whole. Psalm 80, v.3
Les mer»A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it, but a good patriot and a true politician always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard […]
Les mer»Dei tjøresvarte segl frå Aranøyar seglar havsens mørke inn mot land På steinstrender sit og ventar høge fuglar den einaste synberre horisont. Utanfor knurrar Atlanterhavet i jamndøgnsstorm og lokkar: hit, hit Ola Jonsmoen Celle (1971)
Les mer»Mercy and truth are met together: rightousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall flourish out of the earth; and righteousness hath looked down from heaven. Psalm 85, v.2
Les mer»I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something in-conceivable. I can’t help it. I was born sneering. W.S. Gilbert The Mikado (1885)
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