Iona Quotes

“Ar trebui să se pună un grătar la intrarea în orice suflet. Ca să nu se bage nimeni în el cu cuțitul.”
― Marin Sorescu, Iona

“Începe să fie târziu în mine. Uite, s-a făcut întuneric în mâna dreaptă și-n salcâmul din fața casei.”
― Marin Sorescu, Iona

“E prea mică lumea. Întâlnim la fiecare pas numai umbre.”
― Marin Sorescu, Iona

“Cum se numea drăcia aceea frumoasă şi minunată şi nenorocită şi caraghioasă, formată de ani, pe care am trăit-o eu?”
― Marin Sorescu, Iona

“De ce trebuie să se culce toţi oamenii la sfârşitul vieţii ?”
― Marin Sorescu, Iona

“An I mo chridhe, I mo ghraidh. - In Iona that is my heart's desire, Iona that is my love.”
― Saint Columba

“Cum am sărutat prima fată -asta a fost demult-, n-am simțit decât un gust de carne. Un gust de mână. Parcă sărutasem o mână în plus. Abia după vreo două zile m-a apucat o fericire. Așa din senin.”
― Marin Sorescu

“Sunt ca un Dumnezeu care nu mai poate învia”
― Marin Sorescu, Iona

“On the way back, Columba made a little detour. From a mound above the monastery he blessed it and all the people who would in the future come to the island [Iona] for his sake. Then he returned to his cell, not to rest but to go on with his daily stint of copying the scriptures. He was working on the thirty-fourth psalm. He wrote steadily for a while, but when he got to the verse that says, They that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing, he put down his pen. It seemed a perfect place to stop.
"I think I can write no more," he said.”
― Eileen Dunlop, Tales of st Columba

“See, the violent cursed host came rushing through the open buildings, threatening cruel perils to the blessed men; and after slaying with mad savagery the rest of the associates, they approached the holy father, to compel him to give up the precious metals wherein lie the holy bones of St. Columba; but the monks had lifted the shrine from its pediments. and had placed it in the earth, in a hollowed barrow, under a thick layer of turf, because they knew then of the wicked destruction to come.”
― Walafrid Strabo

“Why resist the Iona hypthesis? In part to play devil's advocate, but mostly because the wit, verve and apparent sponteneity - the daredevil quality of the Book of Kells is not in evidence in Iona. It is, however, abundantly present in Pictish sculpture, and thanks to new research we now know that Pictland has a monastic site that once rivalled Iona.”
― Victoria Whitworth, The Book of Kells: Unlocking the Enigma