Quote #6
Gunnar Ekelöf:
“I live in another world but you live in it too.”
I don’t know much about Gunnar Ekelöf. He was a Swedish poet and writer. I found the quote on a random blog and felt like it fits my “Six for the Sky” scene. It’s a verse of Ekelöfs poem “If you aks me”.
IF YOU ASK ME
If you ask me where I am
Well I live here beyond the mountains
It is far but I am near
I live in another world
but you live in it too
It is everywhere, as rare as helium
Why do you ask for an aircraft to travel in
Ask instead for a filter for nitrogen
a filter for carbon dioxide, hydrogen and other gases
Ask for a filter for all that separates us
a filter for life
You say that you can hardly breathe
What of it! Who do you think can breathe?
Most of the time we take it equably
A wise man has said:
“It was so dark that I could barely see the stars.”
He only meant that it was night.