Poetry Is To Hold Judgment

What Is The Difference In Being Alone With Another And Being Alone By One's Self?

One Should Never Put On One's Best Trousers To Go Out To Fight For Freedom.

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.

Before I Write Down One Word, I Have To Have The Character In My Mind Through And Through. I Must Penetrate Into The Last Wrinkle Of His Soul.

Friends Are To Be Feared, Not So Much For What They Make Us Do As What They Keep Us From Doing.