Soren Kierkegaard:

What is a poet? An unhappy man who in his heart harbors a profound agony, but whose lips are so fashioned that the sounds that emerge from them are like the beautiful music of an organ.

— Soren Kierkegaard Modern

Father of existentialism

Context

Either/Or, Part I

Date / Period

1843

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69870/69870-h/69870-h.htm

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