Poetry Quote by Pentti Saarikoski — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I see your picture and in that picture I didn't see you.”

“I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing.”

“I couldn't tell fact from fiction,”

“The weak breeze whispers nothing”

“She was not for everyone but she was for me.”

“Haleine contre haleine, échauffe-moi la vie,”