Leena Krohn Quotes & Sayings

My unbelief had saved me, but the poor creature who believes that everything is true is the victim of his dreams. — Leena Krohn

I had a question in which I lived for a long time,' she said. 'Many years. And one day I remembered I had forgotten it. It had gone, and from that I knew that I had received an Answer. — Leena Krohn

Then I know that in my dreams I can never capture the same sun-glow, and that the air that I breathe can never, there, flow as freshly in my cells, and I can never see so sharply or so far; and I believe once more that what is true can be seen by everyone, everyone. — Leena Krohn

Do not make images. Everything is. Mirkka Rekola — Leena Krohn

It was a day when everything was breaking and melting, vanishing and lifting, the kind of day when all that is old seems to be disappearing and there is not yet anything new to take its place. 'It — Leena Krohn

Like pressing flowers, books preserve the appearance of events, but not their original dimensions. — Leena Krohn

The glittering filament, finer than a hair, is far less than a denier in thickness. When a ray of sunlight struck it at the window at which I was examining it, I saw the thread blaze with all the colours of the spectrum. — Leena Krohn

Some change imperceptibly, little by little, others quickly and once and for all, but everyone changes, and for that reason it is in vain to ask whose fate is the best. My — Leena Krohn

All rooms move. Each of them swings in a pendulum motion between evening and morning, moving its inhabitants closer to the unknown land where they will be no more. But — Leena Krohn