Paavo Haavikko

thumb|upright|Paavo Haavikko in 1960 Paavo Juhani Haavikko (January 25, 1931 in Helsinki – October 6, 2008) was a Finnish poet, playwright, essayist and publisher, considered one of the country's most outstanding writers. He published more than 70 works, and his poems have been translated to 12 languages. Quotes War is time that has marched through the mind, and is later presented in such a way that boots are the be-all and end-all. Thus it is important to teach the soldier exactly how to treat the ghosts, how to address the fog, or how time and space appear on paper to describe absolutely everything. Do not say that was true in antiquity, as there the same sentence changed many times, petrified into mountains, precisely where it was open... Paavo Haavikko, in: John Taylor (2010), Into the Heart of European Poetry. p. 329 External links Category:1931 births Category:2008 deaths Category:Academics from Finland Category:Novelists from Finland Category:Poets from Finland Category:Playwrights from Finland Category:Short story writers Category:Publishers from Finland Category:Businesspeople from Finland Category:People from Helsinki