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Frases de Vilhelm Ekelund

Vilhelm Ekelund fue un poeta sueco.

Seguidor de los simbolistas franceses, es el precursor de la poesía moderna sueca. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. octubre 1880 – 3. septiembre 1949
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Vilhelm Ekelund: Frases en inglés

“The artist and the poet have the facility for mistaking pure languor for meditative peace and strength. True meditation "rests" in swiftness.”

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Vilhelm Ekelund

Fuente: The Second Light (1986), p. 23

“What has been postponed by reason of road and effort is well postponed.”

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Fuente: The Second Light (1986), p. 132

“Truth and beauty … yield themselves only to whoever surrenders to them—as to a rescuer.”

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Vilhelm Ekelund

Fuente: The Second Light (1986), p. 133

“The egotism of wisdom: to burn all that is pettily, painfully, stupidly selfish in the fire of love of spiritual vision and freedom.”

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Vilhelm Ekelund

Fuente: The Second Light (1986), p. 14

“Sometimes it is hard to avoid a certain feeling of sadness: when realizing that everything sensible has already, many times over, been excellently expressed—and expressed in vain. And note how well-hidden, pushed into obscurity, drowned by triviality's overwhelming mass—therefore, how important it is that the sensible be repeated again and again, experienced in new individuals over and over with new variations, with a new emphasis, in a new voice—continuously kept alive.”

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Vilhelm Ekelund

Fuente: The Second Light (1986), p. 71

“Everything great has already been said. But the person who knows how to stimulate his soul with the magnificence of it is always something new.”

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Fuente: The Second Light (1986), p. 14

“The Jesuit principle: withdrawal from the world—in order to act on the world—was frequently also the principle of genius.”

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Fuente: The Second Light (1986), p. 22

“The noble Nazarene … who raged against "the world," against the philistinism, the halfheartedness, the lack of ideals—if he had guessed that he was forging a weapon for the hands of exactly "this world"—he who sensed the misfortune of humanity so deeply that he didn't find any other solution to its enigma than to entirely reject and turn his back on all that is earthly, would see his name dragged into the service of an intense philistine optimism.”

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Vilhelm Ekelund

Fuente: The Second Light (1986), p. 21

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