No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.
-- Knut Hamsun
   
Knut Hamsun   Name:
Knut Hamsun
Type:
Author
Nationality:
Norwegian
Birth:
August 4, 1859
Death:
February 19, 1952
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