I have read true piety defined as: loving oneโs destiny unconditionally โ and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that in a way this sort of โreligiousnessโ is the condition for real happiness.
Isak DinesenA poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.
Isak DinesenIn the Ngong Forest I have also seen, on a narrow path through thick growth, in the middle of a very hot day, the Giant Forest Hog, a rare person to meet.
Isak DinesenI don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
Isak DinesenI do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch... and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order... by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.
Isak Dinesen