Swedish Poet Quotes

Harry Martinson

Erik Axel Karlfeldt

Esaias Tegnér

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.

Vilhelm Ekelund

It whispers; all is waiting here
Kept safe for thee, year after year,
Beautiful songs in thousands;
Where hast thou been, where, where?

Erik Axel Karlfeldt

Hener was the hero-king,
Heaven-born, dear to us,
Showing his shield
A shelter for peace.

Who really respects the earthworm, the farm worker far under the grass in the soil.

Harry Martinson