Poetry Is To Hold Judgment On Your

Mrs Linde: When You've Sold Yourself Once For The Sake Of Others, You Don't Do It Second Time.

So To Conduct One's Life As To Realize Oneself-this Seems To Me The Highest Attainment Possible To A Human Being. It Is The Task Of One And All Of Us, But Most Of Us Bungle It.

The Sea Possesses A Power Over One's Moods That Has The Effect Of A Will. The Sea Can Hypnotize. Nature In General Can Do So.

It Is Not For A Care-free Existence I Am Fighting, But For The Possibility Of Devoting Myself To The Task Which I Believe And Know Has Been Laid Upon Me By God -- The Work Which Seems To Me More Important And Needful In Norway Than Any Other, That Of Arousing The Nation And Leading It To Think Great Thoughts.

That Is The Accursed Thing About Small Surroundings -- They Make The Soul Small.