I came across this quote which has been been stuck in my mind since then. I wanted to develop a project based on it as I wanted to share its truth and beauty with others.
Ever since I have been trying to figure out what would be the best way of getting across this message, and lately I have devoted most of my time to finishing this project, which I soon will be able to share with the rest of the world.
First here is the quote in the original danish version and after my personal English translation for those who don't speak Danish.
"Men hvert træ
kjendes på sin egen frugt, saaledes ogsaa Kjerligheden på dens egne, og den
kjerlighed, om hvilken Christendommen taler, paa dens egen frugt: at den har
Evigheden sandhed I sig. Al anden Kjerlighed, hvad enten den, menneskeligt
talt, tidlig afblomstre og forandres, eller den elskeligt bevarer sig I timelighedens
aarstid: den er dog forgængelig, den blomstre kun. Dette er just det skrøbelige
og det vemodige ved den, hvad enten den blomstrer en time eller 70 Aar, den
blomstre kun; men den
kristelige kjerlighed er evig. Derfor vil ingen, hvis han forstaar sig selv, vil
falde paa at besynge den. Thi hvad digteren skal besynge maa have det vemod,
som er hans eget Livs Gaade: maa blomstrer, og hvad der blomstrer det forgaaer,
man hvad der er kan ikke besynges det
maa troes og maa leves."
"But every tree is recognized by its own fruit, thus as well
love on its own, and this love, on which Christianity speaks, on its own fruit:
that it has the truth of eternity within. Every other love, whether it humanly
speaking, early withers or changes, or it is lovingly retained in the temporal
season; it is but perishable, it only blooms. This is just its fragility and
sadness, whether it blooms for an hour or 70 years, it only blooms; but the Christian love is
eternal. Therefore no one will, if he understands himself, think of praising
it. For what the poet must praise must contain this pathos, which is the riddle
of his own life: will bloom, and what blooms must vanish, but what is cannot be praised it must be believed
and must be lived"
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