Quotes by Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe.

Believe

Conviction

Matter

Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?

Cost

Effort

Giving

Do you know what constitutes a great poet? He is a person without shame, incapable of blushing. Ordinary fools have moments when they go off by themselves and blush with shame; not so the great poet…. If you really have to quote someone, quote a geographer; that way you won’t give yourself away. (p 44)

Giving

Ordinary

Way

Earth and sea merged, the sea tossed itself in the air in a fantastic dance, into the shapes of men and horses and tattered banners. I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.

Horse

Men

Nature

Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have to stop and search their memories merely to know who these so-called great men might be. And so the great man is left with the crowd, the worthless majority…for his admirers.

Majority

Memories

Men

Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!

Doubt

Heaven

Opportunity

I can’t even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.

Life And Death

Rhyme

Umbrella

I have gone to the forest.

Forests

Gone

I have had much to learn from Sweden’s poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

Generations

Lasts

Sweden

I love three things,” I then say. “I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth.” “And which do you love best?” “The dream.

Dream

Love You

Three

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Able

Age

Air

And Love

Art

Becoming

Believe

Bird

Blood

Bones

Book

Coffee

Conviction

Cost

Couple

Debt

Details

Direct

Doe

Doubt

Dream

Dust

Earth

Echoes

Effort

Evil

Eye

Fall

Fate

Flower

Forests

Generations

Genius

Giving

Goes On

Gone

Goodbye

Gray

Hard Work

Heart

Heaven

Horse

House

I Can

Important

Intellectual

Intelligent

Jerk

Knows

Language

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Quotes by Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe.

Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?

Earth and sea merged, the sea tossed itself in the air in a fantastic dance, into the shapes of men and horses and tattered banners. I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.

Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!

I can’t even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.

I have gone to the forest.

I have had much to learn from Sweden’s poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

I love three things,” I then say. “I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth.” “And which do you love best?” “The dream.

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