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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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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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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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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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Poetry
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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

A poet can survive anything but a misprint. – Oscar Wilde

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Poetry

All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and its another world. Its filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers – all kinds of people. – Flea

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Poetry

Ive been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out. – Ed Westwick

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Ive got tapes that Im so thankful that my father made – old reel-to-reel tapes. Ive got a ton of those things at home. He kept those like fine diamonds, I mean he kept them, you know, in a box and was very, very careful of them, you know. – Ricky Skaggs

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I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now. – Michelle Obama

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