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Knut Hamsun

"I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation."

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Donna Grant

"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

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Donna Grant

"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

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Donna Grant

"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."

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Donna Grant

"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."

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Donna Grant

"The crown of literature is poetry."

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Donna Grant

"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."

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Donna Grant

"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

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Donna Grant

"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

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Donna Grant

"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."

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Donna Grant

"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."

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Knut Hamsun
"No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation."

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Knut Hamsun
"In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived."

Age

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Knut Hamsun
"No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave."

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Knut Hamsun
"Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth."

Life

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Knut Hamsun
"There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it."

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Knut Hamsun
"I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation."

Poetry

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Knut Hamsun
"It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?"

Life

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Knut Hamsun
"Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!"

Life

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Knut Hamsun
"In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you."

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Knut Hamsun
"However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science."

Science

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