Aleksis Kivi quotes
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“The fire of love is drawn from the sky rather than the human mind.”
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“A strong desire derives a person straight through the hardest rock.”
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“The love goes where it wants; you hear it rustling but you do not know where it's going and where it goes.”
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“To fall asleep in your embrace,Land of our dreams, what bliss,O you our cradle, you our grave,You the new hope we ever crave,Peninsula so beautiful,Finland for aye our all!”
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Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.87, Penguin
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“Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.”
Source : Last Poems (1922) no. 9
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