Wednesday, March 9, 2011

rethinking existentialism

whoever does not live in poetry
cannot survive on this earth.

-halldor kiljan laxness + 1998

2 comments:

sally said...

ok
i'll bite on this

it seems to me that there
are quite a few people on this earth
surviving without poetry

but they are merely surviving
not living

here's to life
and to poetry

jh said...

i think halldor laxness is saying the same thing as fr martin berlioux in your present quote of the month