Truls Ljungström

“Spar Dödlige dina tårar, stäng plågan i ett tåligt bröst; förkväv det hopp din högmod dårar, vart når din matta klagoröst?

Ur "En stadig man", en etisk dikt av Kellgren.”
― Johan Henric Kellgren, Skrifter (Svenska klassiker)

“Which road, which road did you take
That brought you here at last?

No road, no road did I take.
I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream.

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― Franz Werfel

“Sidnummer 36, sida 40 (Hus 3)
All things obstruct us while prudence rules our actions; we are afraid of everything and therefore fear to make progress—as if we could reach the inner chambers while others make the journey for us! As this is impossible, sisters, for the love of God let us exert ourselves, and leave our reason and our fears in His hands, paying no attention to the weaknesses of nature which might retard us.”
― Theresa of Avila

“Our educational institutions are thronged these days by idealistic resenters who denounce competition in literature as in life, but the aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to all the ancient Greeks, and to Burckhardt and Nietzsche, who recovered this truth.”
― Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages