Quotes

Karin Boye's poems translated to english

Memory 

I want to thank my fate/destiny: I'll never completly lose you.

Like a pearl grows in the oyster, just like in me your dewy being grows in me so sweet.

If I at last forget you one day- then you are blood of my blood,

then you are one with me- what the gods gave.

The Maple

They fight and bleed in battle, all though scars and wound,

 they fight hard for their expensive victories!

But oh you young tree, you bloomed with maple,

you I love more than the warriors scars.

Your unacquired, hapy nobilty is more than their won battles.

Healthy in life's morning you sprouted from the ground, healthy,

 healthy you grew at peace in sun and rain; anxious you never felt, not regret either, 

nothing of all our sickness.

You bloom in gold and wine; in whispers you laugh, when the walker kisses your trunk.

His kiss is a prayer for the eternal beauty, who thought in the day of your lovely bloom.

Blessed you, blessed you, beautiful growing maple!

You don't need the warriors victories.

With you the anxious woods can rest, with you is sun from diety.

From a naughty girl

I hope you don't have it well.

I hope you lie awake like me and feel just as weirldy happy, moved, dizzy, 

anxious and very disturbed.

And just like that, you get a hurry to fall asleep good.

i hope it takes you a while.... I hope you get no sleep at all!

Idyll

Your voice and your steps fall soft like water on my workday.

Where I sit it smells of spring in the air around me of your lliving warmth.

Du bloom in my mind, you bloom in my blood, and I only wonder,

that my happy hands won't burst out in heavy roses.

Now everyday life close around us two, like a smooth easy fog.

Are you scared of becoming a prisoner, are you scared of drowing in the grey?

Don't be scared: in everyday life, in all of life's heart,

 it burns with still humming flames a deep, secret weekend.

For you

You took my worry and my power,

you took all the life I had,

and because you demanded it allt you gave back a thousand times as much.

I don't know the names of these ones:

1st: 

Alone with you, you eagle eyed, i walk long, so long out,

frozen streets, tinkling roads, without a goal or an end.