Hans Børli Professions : Poet Born : December 8, 1918 Died : August 25, 1989 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Hans Børli Your humble light the fire of your mind blinds you: If you walk with a lantern in the dark you won't see the stars. Hans Børli stars humble dark And the day climbs down from its blue loft-bed on a slanting ladder of sunbeams, pauses a moment between the trees, airy-light, young. Hans Børli light blue tree It must be those brief moments when nothing has happened - nor is going to. Tiny moments, like islands in the ocean beyond the grey continent of our ordinary days. There, sometimes, you meet your own heart like someone you've never known. Hans Børli ocean islands heart Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors