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Knut Hamsun Quotes
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And love was creation’s source,creation’s ruler; but all love’s ways are strewn with blossoms and blood, blossoms and blood. (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
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. (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell; it is the writer’s task to use it in such a way that it serves, never fails, can never be ignored. (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
No, I don’t admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius’s activity in the world, of which the great man is only the poor necessary tool, only, so to speak, the paltry awl to bore with. (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
The long, long road over the moors and up into the forest - who trod it into being first of all? Man, a human being, the first that came here. There was no path before he came (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe… (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
The whisper of the blood and the pleading of the bone marrow (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
I have gone to the forest (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
A word can be transformed into a color, light, a smell; it is the writer’s task to use it in such a way that it serves, never fails, can never be ignored (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
And love became the world’s origin and the world’s ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
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? (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
No, I don’t admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius’s activity in the world, of which the great man is only the poor necessary tool, only, so to speak, the paltry awl to bore with (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it …. Despite my alienation from myself at that moment, and even though I was nothing but a battleground for invisible forces, I was aware of every detail of what was going on around me (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
Earth and sea merged, the sea tossed itself in the air in a fantastic dance, into the shapes of men and horses and tattered banners. I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
There are some people who cannot help giving. Why? Because they experience a real psychological pleasure in doing so. They don’t do it with an eye to their own advantage, they do it on the quiet; they detest doing it openly because that would take away some of the satisfaction. They do it in secret, with quick trembling hands, their breasts rocked by a spiritual well being which they do not themselves understand (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are overtones and undertones to a word, and lateral echoes, too (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
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 (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
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! (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
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 (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
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 (Knut Hamsun Quotes)
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