Show text from static page over posts on main page

Does anyone know how I can show text from a page (About) above the posts on my main page.

At the moment I’ve added:

<?php if( ( is_home() && !is_paged() ) || is_page() ) { ?>
<div id="static" class="clearfloat">
this is a text</div>
<?php } ?>

But then I have to write the text. I want it to fetch the text from a page (about)