Yes, it is a painful lot to be a poet and to love both God and man by the farthest northern seas! - Halldór Laxness

Jón Hreggviðsson said that he himself never read except when he was forced to do so, though he had learned from his mother all the necessary sagas, ballads, and old genealogies, and he claimed to be descended from Haraldur Hilditönn, the Danish king, on his father's side. He said that he would never forget such excellent ancients as Gunnar of Hlíðarendi, King Pontus, and Örvar-Oddur, who were twelve ells high and could have lived to be three hundred years old if they hadn't run into any trouble, and that if he had such a book he would send it immediately for free to the king and his counts, to prove to them that there had indeed once been real men in Iceland.

Oh no, better to be silent. That is what the glacier does. That is what the lilies of the field do.

A man is not independent unless he has the courage to stand alone.