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“We must be confident that life is fundamentally good, that even after frightening disasters, the earth is bathed in a flood of strength whose sources are eternal.”

Original: Vi må tro på at livet dypest sett er godt, at jorden selv etter de forferdeligste katastrofer skylles av en strøm av kraft hvis kilder er evige. — A stirring expression of ultimate optimism and resilience in the face of hardship · Nobel Banquet speech, 1903 (Norwegian)

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

“I call my verses only semi-poetry, and my realities, subject to the laws of ordinary mortal life, I dare call nothing more than possibility.”

Original: Yo no llamo a mis versos sino semi-poesía, y a mis realidades, que obedecen a la ley de vida de los simples mortales, no oso llamar otra cosa que posibilidad. — Characterising his work with modesty and an awareness of human limitation · Academy address, Semi-poesía y posibilidad, 1938 (Spanish)

Manuel Machado

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