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Jag hörde i drömmen:

- Habib, vill du ha denna lök

eller bara en skiva?

Det föll över mig en stor tveksamhet

Denna gåtas fråga

var mitt livs fråga!

Ville jag ha delen framför det hela

eller det hela före delen?

Nej, jag ville ha båda

såväl delen av det hela som det hela

och att ingen stridighet funnes i detta val.

Gunnar Ekelöf. Diwan över fursten av Emgión, Bonniers 1965, pp. 11; (English)

    
 

Gunnar Ekelöf (1907-1968)
 

 The Swedish poet Gunnar Ekelöf is a classic modernist in nordic literature, who say NO, to the institutionalize religion, social structure and science. 

 He believe in the lonesome person and the art of the impossible, worship a virgin who is childless and mother to all.

 Introduce surrealism to Sweden in the 1930s, and work from modernism through the romantic and nonsense towards a figurative classic oriental timelessness.

 Learned poetry, often dreamed, based on classic, Indian, Arabic/ Persian, Greek and Latin thought, mixed with experience from travels to the Mediterranean.

 This sites intention is to motivate absorption in the works through translation and bibliographic pin down of attach literature...

... Open it, Read!