The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with. Halldor Laxness More Quotes by Halldor Laxness More Quotes From Halldor Laxness Some things in literature are inexplicable. Halldor Laxness some-thingssomethingsliterature I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming. Halldor Laxness comingfeelspringhappiness It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent. Halldor Laxness factalwayssimplematter I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams. Halldor Laxness storydreamsplacechildhood Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child. Halldor Laxness respecthumblelovelife My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity. Halldor Laxness flyoldthoughtswork From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference. Halldor Laxness careernowsinglework
