…she wrote in a letter to the poet Thorkild Bjørnvig: “The smallest fragment of a gold coin, even dust scraped from it, is always gold. But a corner snipped off a hundred kroner note, even half of it – is nothing, of less value than a piece of white paper, which at least you can write on.â€
The Welcome of Beautiful Flowers, Steen Eiler Rasmussen, from Karen Blixen’s Flowers: nature and art at Rungestedlund, Christian Eilers Publishers
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As-salamu ‘alaykum Hajj Abdassamad,
Thank you for sharing this!
How eloquently she put it!
Wa alaikum as-salam,
And I know of no occasion on which Karen Blixen did not speak up for Islam and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. Now therein probably lies interesting material for some research and an article.
Abdassamad