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The flowers growing from that soil are made of cotton cloth; they don't even grow, they are taken from the head and stuck in the heart, because the h… - Jens Peter Jacobsen
" "The flowers growing from that soil are made of
cotton cloth; they don't even grow, they are taken from the head and stuck in the heart,
because the heart has no flowers of its own. That is exactly what I envy in the young girl:
everything about her is genuine, she does not fill the goblet of her love with the makeshift
of imagination. Do not suppose, because her love is shot through and shadowed over by
imagined pictures and again pictures in a great, teeming vagueness, that she cares more
for those images than for the earth she walks upon. It is only that all her senses and
instincts and powers are reaching out for love everywhere — everywhere, without ever
feeling weary.
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About Jens Peter Jacobsen
Jens Peter Jacobsen (7 April 1847 – 30 April 1885) was a Danish novelist, poet, and scientist, in Denmark often just written as "J. P. Jacobsen". He began the naturalist movement in Danish literature and was a part of the Modern Breakthrough.
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