"I'm longing to get away from this stony country. Even a poet can have enough sometimes."
Some children's books are not children's books at all but wonderful and beautiful when you've grown up. The Moomin Books (by Tove Jansson) are like that. They scared me when I was little. Now they give me poetry and life. They make me want to wander for hundreds of miles through the silent forests of my homeland and arrive in a valley where a steaming cup of coffee is waiting in a warm kitchen.
"That's where we're going to live and lead a wonderful life, full of troubles ...."
(quotes from T. Jansson's Comet in Moominland and Moominpappa at Sea)
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