A poem from 1925 by the Danish writer Sophus Claussen

 

Creation

I am unborn as yet, but am delivered giving birth.

From the life in my work I sense the life in myself,

robbed of this mirror, I am as good as laid in earth.

My calling I have brought with me, of my own I perform nothing,

But I am delivered, and delivered see my debt is paid

to the force from which I derive, and which has delegated me.

The kingdom that has summoned me and from which I derive –

is it an unborn power that delivers itself while giving birth?

Is it a divine splendour, whose fount is sheer glory?

I do not know, but in my blood is the courage of all longings.

I hammer fire out of darkness, liberate the helpless.