Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Esaias Tegner

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Greek writer Esaias Tegner.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Esaias Tegnér was a Swedish writer, professor of the Greek language, and bishop. He was during the 19th century regarded as the father of modern poetry in Sweden, mainly through the national romantic epic Frithjof's Saga. He has been called Sweden's first modern man. Much is known about him, and he also wrote openly about himself.

Greek - Writer | November 13, 1782 - November 2, 1846

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A sense of justice is a noble fancy.

Esaias Tegner

Attach thyself to truth; defend justice; rejoice in the beautiful. That which comes to thee with time, time will take away; that which is eternal will remain in thy heart.

Esaias Tegner

In Phebus realm, in knowledge as in verse,All things are clear, the sun of Phoebus clear,Clear was his crystal, the Kastalian.What you cannot clearly say, you don't know:To tongue of man his thought brings word:What's said obscurely is what's thought obscurely.

Esaias Tegner