wind

'Α good wind for one is a contrary wind for another'

Hans Christian Andersen 'The Marsh King's Daughter'

poetry in bottles

''I have a whole cupboard of poetry in bottles. It makes essences; and that's the best of it - bitter and sweet herbs. I have everything that people want of poetry, in bottles, so that i can put a little on my handkerchief, on holidays, to smell''

Hans Christian Andersen - 'the will-o-the-wisps are in the town'

what a strange feeling it is...

''What a strange feeling it is -  and we have doubtless all experienced it - that of turning over old letters of the days of our youth! a whole life seems to come up with them, with all its hopes and sorrows. 

Ηοw many persons with whom we were intimate in those days, are as it were dead to us! and yet they are alive, but for a long time we have not thought of them - of them whom we then thought to hold fast for ages, and with whom we were to share sorrow and joy.''

Hans Christian Andersen ' The Dumb Book'

everything comes round

'Everything comes round again!' said he; 'only take notice of people and events, and you will find that they always come again, in another dress, in another country.'

Hans Christian Andersen 'The Comet'

people are saying many strange things

''[...] you see, children who cannot talk yet, can understand the language of fowls and ducks right well, and cats and dogs speak to them quite as plainly as Father and Mother can do; but it's only when the children are very little, and then, even Grandfather's stick will become a perfect horse to them, and can neigh, and, in their eyes, is furnished with head and legs and tail. 

With some children this period ends later than with others, and of such we are accustomed to say that they are very backward, and that they have remained children a long time. People are in habit of saying many strange things''.

Hans Christian Andersen ''The Ice Maiden''