Aase Berg > Quotes

“Poetry is a will to put things right, an imaginary solution, a way of avoiding a catastrophe that already happened. Poetry is an escape, perhaps intelligent, perhaps idiotic, from a senile situation. It is a dialectical movement, it keeps tearing open the wounds while trying to heal them. Here we see the only acceptable path open up towards an existence worthy of human beings. Here the seriousness is unfaltering and absolute. Where it will lead no one knows.”
― Aase Berg

“I don’t think dreams mean anything; they just are. There’s no reason to translate them into logic.”
― Aase Berg

“The stiffened wants to fatten.
The materials want out.
The darkness of matter is endless.”
― Aase Berg, Dark Matter

“A hint of ghost-moisture
through human life
Seismic mass
pressing and raw
My eye doesn’t meet the gaze
of my other eye
One with crossed eyes
can turn out like that.”
― Aase Berg