Gunnar Ekelöf

POSTED IN classic poetry, Spring March 13, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Songs of something else

 

“It was clear for me that I knew nothing. I took words one by one and tried to determine their values. I placed word beside word and succeeded after a great deal of trouble in piecing together a complete sentence – naturally with no meaning in it – but composed a word values. It was the meaning underneath I was looking for – a kind of ALCHIMIE DU VERBE”

 

Gunnar Ekelöf