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

Other quotes by Knut Hamsun

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil ones coffee and fill ones pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it. – Knut Hamsun

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alone
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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

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Age
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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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Wisdom
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Poetry
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Well, I like to write poetry. Im a published poet. – Misha Collins

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Poetry

Its not easy to define poetry. – Bob Dylan

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Poetry

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears. – Octavio Paz

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Poetry

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. – Archibald MacLeish

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Poetry

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I don’t regret how much I love, and I avoid those who repent their passion. – Rumi

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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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