One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word. — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace. — Knut Hamsun Death Copy Share Image
“I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it.” — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we… — Knut Hamsun Age Copy Share Image
“Man sværmer om sommeren, så holder man op for den gang. Men nogen sværmer hele sitt liv og står ikke til å… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Vi andre blir til det lille vi blir fordi er så almindelige. Han er fra et grænseland som er ukjendt for os.” — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Solen er forlængst dukket under synsranden, fjældene er blit hvitlig grønne, de ser ut i sin fjærnhet og i sin vælde som… — Knut Hamsun Awe Copy Share Image
Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount… — Knut Hamsun Couple Copy Share Image
“The ships whose masts I saw outlined against the sky looked, with their black hulls, like silent monsters that were raising their… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Kaffe av skålen, et forsvarlig smørogbrød med snedkeren, ingen unatur og kunster, det var akkurat som et lite fotfæste for hende her… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“If I happened to find a diamond one day, I would call it Dagny, because the very sound of your name thrills… — Knut Hamsun Day and night Copy Share Image
“Vendt mot syd, var til høyre en langbratt mektig ås. Bakom denne blå fjell. Til venstre en naken skrent; mange vannfosser nedover.… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Til andre Tider kan selv usædvanlige Oplevelser ikke formaa at rykke en ut av en jævn og fattig Stemning; midt i en… — Knut Hamsun Frame of mind Copy Share Image
“Hvad vinding er det i grunden endog rent praktisk talt at man ribber livet for al poesi, al drøm, al skjøn mystik,… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Growth of the soil was something different, a thing to be procured at any cost; the only source, the origin of all.… — Knut Hamsun Life Copy Share Image
“Høibro kunde ikke forstå at denne tørre fremskridtskvinde med kort hår blandet sig i slike spørsmål som ægteskapet, hun stod i hans… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that… — Knut Hamsun Art Copy Share Image
I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it … .… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“KARENO (sitter ved skrivebordet. Han er 50 år, skjeggløs, med nesten hvitt hår, iført slitte, grå klær): Min filosofis fremtid, sier De?… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“En kold og syrlig lukt av sydlanske varer slog ham imøte, av kaffe og olje og vin. Høie rækker av tekasser, bundter… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and… — Knut Hamsun Absence Copy Share Image
“Nu sitter de tre der og koser sig med hverandre og har denne lille hemmelighet med slikkerier sig imellem. Det er som… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“That room was Rolandsen’s world. Rolandsen was not just irresponsibility and inebriation, he was also great thinker and inventor. There was a… — Knut Hamsun Attitude Copy Share Image
“So we Europeans are shocked by the blind, uncomprehending hard-heartedness that certain American government policies imply. I am thinking of the terrible… — Knut Hamsun America Copy Share Image
“To me, it seems unspeakably shabby to make a fuss over charity. You're walking along the street one day, the weather is… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Wild ideas popped up again in my head. What if I quietly went over and cut off the mooring ropes on one… — Knut Hamsun Fire Copy Share Image
“...da var det skjænk og bakervarer for hver som kom ind i hans krambod, og somme hadde riktignok ingen skam, men kom… — Knut Hamsun Drinking Copy Share Image
“Kvinden var menneske, den ene halvdel av menneskeheten, men mandfolk det var nu kvinden ikke!” — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Han spiste visst renmose iblandt, for hans ånde duftet som hos en renokse. Det var nogen vildtsmak av hans ånde.” — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Small things and great occur; a tooth falls from the mouth, a man out of the ranks, a sparrow to the ground.” — Knut Hamsun Great things Copy Share Image
“The dark monsters out there would suck me up when night came on, and they would carry me far across the sea… — Knut Hamsun Dark Copy Share Image
“Det er ingen herlighet til som suset i skogen, det er som å gynge, det er som galskap; Uganda, Tananarivo, Honolulu, Atacama,… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Alas, love turns the human heart into a mildewed garden, a lush and shameless garden in which grow mysterious, obscene toadstools.” — Knut Hamsun Gardening Copy Share Image
“Men tiden går, går storartet. Det er ikke en synlig hånd som skyver på, men går gjør det, aldrig set slikt, det… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we… — Knut Hamsun Age Copy Share Image
