Nils Poppe Quotes

Jof I've written a song about the spring! Would you like to hear it?

Mia Our guest may not care for your songs.

Jöns Oh, yes. I write songs myself.

Jof You see!

Jöns There's one about an enormous fish which you haven't heard.

Jöns And you're not going to hear it, either.

Block We worry about so much.

Mia It's better to be two.

Block To believe is to suffer. It is like loving someone in the dark who never answers.

Block I shall remember this hour of peace: the strawberries, the bowl of milk, your faces in the dusk. Mikael asleep, Jof with his lute. I shall remember our words, and shall bear this memory between my hands as carefully as a bowl of fresh milk.

Block And this will be a sign, and a great content.

Jof Mia! I see them, Mia! I see them! Over there against the stormy sky. They are all there. The smith and Lisa, the knight, Raval, Jöns, and Skat. And the strict master Death bids them dance. He wants them to hold hands and to tread the dance in a long line. At the head goes the strict master with the scythe and hourglass. But the Fool brings up the rear with his lute. They move away from the dawn in a solemn dance away towards the dark lands while the rain cleanses their cheeks of the salt from their bitter tears.

Mia You with your visions!

Jof Going to play Death?

Jonas Skat Scaring decent folk out of their wits. … They say the plague stalks the land. The priests speculate in sudden death and moral bellyache.