Happiness Is Above All Things

I Propose To Raise A Revolution Against The Lie That The Majority Has The Monopoly Of The Truth.

The Devil Is Compromise.

To Live Is To War With Trolls In Heart And Woul. To Write Is To Sit In Judgement On Oneself.

Poetry Is To Hold Judgment On Your Soul.

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.