“Thereafter, when he himself was dead, he imagined that his poems would be published in some mysterious way, and the nation would read them for comfort in adversity, as it had read the poems of other poets before him; it was his highest wish that his poems could help those as unfortunate as himself to have patience to endure.</b”

—  Halldór Laxness

Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book One: The Revelation of the Deity

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