Vilhelm Ekelund

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

"Whose is the world? Whose is thought? His who loves them."

"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-hi…"

"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."

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

"Truth and beauty ... yield themselves only to whoever surrenders to them—as to a rescuer."

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

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