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“I am a great believer in new light, but let us always remember that the source of light is the same, and keep our eyes open to see it growing brighter and brighter until noon.”

Original: Yr wyf fi yn gredwr mawr mewn goleuni newydd, ond dewch i ni gael cofio o hyd, mai yr un yw ffynhonnell goleuni, a chadw'n llygaid yn agored i'w weled yn myned fwy—fwy hyd hanner dydd. — Welcoming new understanding while retaining a sense of an enduring spiritual source · Sermon, Sul y Blodau, 31 March 1903 (Welsh)

Watcyn Wyn

“We are more inclined to create darkness than to bring forth light. The weary years and black nights are our creations; the dawn, the light and the day belong to God.”

Original: Yr ydym ni yn fwy tueddol i greu tywyllwch na gwawrio goleuni, y cyfnodau, a'r tymhorau, a'r blynyddau blinion, a'r nosweithiau duon yw'n creadigaethau ni; Duw biau'r wawr, a'r goleuni, a'r dydd! — Contrasting humanity's darkness with the renewing light he attributes to God · Sermon, Sul y Blodau, 31 March 1903 (Welsh)

Watcyn Wyn

“The country has awakened, and the nation is beginning to rub its eyes. Our literature is growing and our poets multiplying; perhaps our music lags furthest behind.”

Original: Y mae'r wlad wedi deffro, a'r genedl yn dechreu rhwbio ei llygaid. Y mae ein llenyddiaeth ar gynnydd, a'n beirdd o hyd yn amlhau; dichon mai ein cerddoriaeth sydd fwyaf ar ol. — Expressing optimism about a Welsh cultural awakening while calling for musical renewal · Address, National Eisteddfod Merthyr proclamation, 1900 (Welsh)

Watcyn Wyn

“To meet the coming future, there should be two examinations: one for the schoolboy and one for the thoughtful man, with a class and work for each.”

Original: I gwrdd â'r dyfodol agos, dylai fod yna ddau arholiad, arholiad i'r bachgen ysgol, ac arholiad i'r dyn meddylgar; a dylai fod dosbarth a gwaith ar gyfer pob un ohonynt. — Advocating education that recognises different kinds of ability and experience · Address, Y Paratoad Goreu ar Gyfer y Weinidogaeth, 1895 (Welsh)

Watcyn Wyn

“Moral of the whole affair: our optimistic wishes and hopes are still decidedly premature, if we are ever to see them fulfilled at all. I am thoroughly weary of Germany.”

Original: Moral des Ganzen: unsere optimistischen Wünsche u. Hoffnungen sind noch reichlich verfrüht, wenn wir überhaupt jemals ihre Erfüllung erleben sollten. Ich bin reichlich deutschlandmüde. — A candid expression of disillusionment shortly before the outbreak of the First World War · Letter to René Schickele, July 1914 (German)

Ernst Stadler

“But the younger generation, further removed from memories of war and less inclined to uncompromising partisanship, turns the old hardship into a new virtue and seeks to embrace both elements within itself, with the ideal of a future synthesis always before it.”

Original: Aber die junge Generation, der Kriegserinnerung ferner, weniger geneigt zu der Unbedingtheit ausgesprochener Parteinahme, schafft sich aus der alten Not eine neue Tugend und sucht beide Elemente in sich zu fassen, immer das Ideal einer zukünftig zu vollziehenden Synthese vor Augen. — Sets out Stadler's hope that Alsace might reconcile rather than choose between German and French cultu… · Essay, Ein Wunsch, 1911 (German)

Ernst Stadler

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