“I see stars before my eyes, and my thoughts are swept up into a hurricane of light.” — Knut Hamsun Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Ja, sa Augustm er det ikke slik det går altid! Jeg synes for min del at Dokker to er et eksemplar til… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“A country preacher could not have looked more full of milk and honey than this formidable writer, whose words had always left… — Knut Hamsun Milk and honey Copy Share Image
“All I was capable of, even deep in misery, was rhetoric and belles-lettres, it was all talk.” — Knut Hamsun Misery Copy Share Image
“A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when the sun rises; I shoulder my gun in silent exaltation.” — Knut Hamsun Existential Copy Share Image
In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you… — Knut Hamsun Carefree Copy Share Image
“Husket han i sommer da han var skipper og hun skulde koke middag til ham? Han var så fin at han måtte… — Knut Hamsun Food Copy Share Image
I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation. — Knut Hamsun Generations Copy Share Image
Small jerks began to appear in my legs, my walk became unsteady precisely because I wanted it to be smooth. — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Was it really right to look the way he did? His prominent nose was altogether too immodest for his humble position in… — Knut Hamsun Artist 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
“Human beings push against each other and trample on each other; some sink exhausted to the ground and serve as a bridge… — Knut Hamsun Hard life Copy Share Image
It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“På kirkegården hjemme vokste nogen bringebær som hadde plantet sig selv og stod uten røkt. De kom igjen hvert år og vi… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“De sier hun er melle firti og femti, men hun er mindst seksti, ropte han, og er slikt menneskelig? Gå og vifte… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“I sat looking at her with rapt attention. My heart was thumping, the blood coursing warmly through my veins. What a wonderful… — Knut Hamsun Clock ticking Copy Share Image
“Then we were at the fountain - we stop and look up at the many illuminated windows of number 2. "This is… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“For også hun hadde hat sin historie, sin lille uregelmæssighet i sit liv (...)Siden sit ulykkelige forhold til en ung fremmed, en… — Knut Hamsun Drama Copy Share Image
What if one were up there, drifting about among suns and feeling the tails of comets fan one's forehead! How small the… — Knut Hamsun Comets Copy Share Image
“God is forgotten, the mighty dollar has taken his place and the mechanic cannot ease the troubled soul. The road is closed.… — Knut Hamsun America Copy Share Image
“I was fading helplessly away with open eyes, staring straight at the ceiling. Finally I stuck my forefinger in my mouth and… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“He was hungry, and his first thought was to collect a dozen or two gulls’ eggs to make a meal. But embryo… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Og kjærligheten blev verdens ophav og verdens hersker, men alle dens veier er fulle av blomster og blod, blomster og blod.” — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Men hvad bruker hun al den sherryen til? De har visst svært ofte skjelpadesuppe der i huset. Ja men en flaske om… — Knut Hamsun Drinking Copy Share Image
“Men kvinden hun var som alle vise visste før: uendelig ringe i ævner, men rik i uansvarlighet, i forfængelighet, i letfærdighet. Hun… — Knut Hamsun Woman Copy Share Image
There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill… — Knut Hamsun Coffee Copy Share Image
“And love became the world's beginning and the world's ruler; but all its ways are full of flowers and blood, flowers and… — Knut Hamsun Flowers Copy Share Image
“...karve i stompen og knust kandis på var en hittil ukjendt delikatesse for ham, han vilde be sin mor om å indføre… — 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
“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
A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell; it is the writer's task to use it in such a… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
And love was creation's source,creation's ruler; but all love's ways are strewn with blossoms and blood, blossoms and blood. — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Det er for øvrig ikke tvil om at det skal en viss grad av hjærnetomhet til for å kunne gå og være… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
There was a rock in front of my hut, a tall, gray rock. By its looks it seemed to be well-disposed toward… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
