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 artbarbook Change image and share on social
When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate. Knut Hamsun befallcallevil Change image and share on social
For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot. Knut Hamsun greathotiron Change image and share on social
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 agearrivebatch Change image and share on social
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 blessdayfoot Change image and share on social
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 carrydoubtgood Change image and share on social
I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation. Knut Hamsun generationlearnlyric Change image and share on social
Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work. Knut Hamsun acknowledgeconversantdebt Change image and share on social
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. Knut Hamsun assemblyblazecrest share on social
