Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity. Knut Hamsun More Quotes by Knut Hamsun More Quotes From Knut Hamsun I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation. Knut Hamsun sweden generations lasts Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anything—about everything I own in the world. Knut Hamsun welcome couple world 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 path men long ...I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye. Knut Hamsun rip goodbye thinking 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 flower love-is blood What will I do when I can no longer dig? Knut Hamsun i-can hard-work earth Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who die in their teens, their souls shattered - delicate, phosphorescent glowworms that one must see to know they really did exist. Knut Hamsun genius soul men 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 debt names goes-on 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 and-love tools men For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot. Knut Hamsun make great think mean 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 here i-am wisdom science 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 youth blessed time life
