Aaro Hellaakoski



 (June 22, 1893 – November 23, 1952) was a Finnish poet whose work includes some of the earliest examples of modernism in Finnish literature.

Quotes

 * When the early morning sun
 * first pierced the grayness in the sky,
 * a pickerel rose from his watery home
 * to climb a pine tree, singing.
 * And high in the branches, he looked upon
 * the morning's glowing beauty -
 * the wind-blown ripples on the lake,
 * dew-freshened flowers and fields below.
 * Aaro Hellaakoski. "The song of the pike hauen laulu." Aina Swan Cutler (trans.) in: Aili Jarvenpa, ‎Michael G. Karni (1989), Sampo, the magic mill: a collection of Finnish-American writing.


 * From his hole so wet and drenching
 * a pike rose up to tree to sing


 * when through the greyish net of clouds
 * first gleam of day was seen
 * and at the lake the lapping waves
 * woke up with joyous mean
 * the pike rose to the spruce's crone
 * to take a bite at reddish cone
 * Aaro Hellaakoski, "The Pike's Song," (1927), Leevi Lehto (transl.), in: Leevi Lehto. Leevi Lehto. Finnish poetry: then and now, January 2005. Published online at upenn.edu. Accessed 20-03-2013

Quotes about Aaro Hellaakoski

 * For the poet Aaro Hellaakoski there was 'negative fire' in the steely blue skies of winter.
 * William Richard Mead (1993), An Experience of Finland. p. 58