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Quote by Knut Hamsun
No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze o

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

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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

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

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Letters
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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

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Poetry
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Its bad poetry executed by people that cant sing. Thats my definition of Rap. – Peter Steele

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Poetry

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, its to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. – Jim Morrison

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Poetry

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. – Allen Ginsberg

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Poetry

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Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them. – Author Unknown

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Its normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch. – George Osborne

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Ive never found therapy to be a sign of weakness Ive found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength. – Brooke Shields

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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. – Henry David Thoreau, "Chesuncook," The Maine Woods, 1848

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