Beyond Boreas

Never on land or by sea will you find

the marvelous road to the feast of the Hyperborea.

Pindar

It is the kingdom on the other side of time and appearances. It is there we belong. There is our home. It is that which our heart strives for. And for that reason, Steppenwolf, we long for death.

Our only guide is our homesickness.

Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

I am being driven forward

Into an unknown land.

The pass grows steeper,

The air colder and sharper.

A wind from my unknown goal

Stirs the strings

Of expectation.

Still the question:

Shall I ever get there?

There where life resounds,

A clear pure note

In the silence.

Dag Hammarskjold