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Knut Hamsun [1859-1952] Norwegian

Rank: 103
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Knut Hamsun was a major Norwegian writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to the subject, perspective and environment.

Poetry, Age, Alone, Wisdom

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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.	Alone	101
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	102
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.		103
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.		104
For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot.		105
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.	Wisdom	106
I have gone to the forest.		107
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.		108
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.		109
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.	Poetry	110
When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.		111
I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.	Poetry	112
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.		113
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!		114
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?		115

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