Sealing Quotes

“Sealing your lips makes your eyes talk
Truth creeps beneath your lame feet’s walk
Knees stiffen when blood vessels stalk
A pounding heart’s lies hard as rock”
― Munia Khan

“Her var ey at tøve, den Hane blev spendt,
En gloende Kuule hen venlig forsendt
Den skind-klæde Skolt bag sit Øre;
Det smaget ham ligesom nye-smeltet Bly,
De andre hans Grander begyndte at flye,
Vil Selskab der længer ey giøre.”
― Petter Dass, The Trumpet of Nordland

“What my aunt wanted to try was to create the Night Library. Through all of her studies of art, she'd discovered the importance of preserving this thing known as the past.
"You know, it's presumptuous to think that the present is more advanced than the past," she said. "Putting aside industry, science, and chemistry, there hasn't been any progress in the arts, or literature."
She told me this while she stood in front of the statue David in the Accademia Gallery.
"Probably we can't produce magnificent things like this nowadays. Apart from reproductions and such."
"Hmm."
"Which is why I'd like to take the past and seal it in.”
― Hika Harada, Dinner at the Night Library