Norsk diktning i utvalg
- Authors:
- Alf Tveterås (editor), Hans Nerdrum (editor) and Per Voght Hanssen (editor)
- Language:
- Norwegian (bokmål)
- Original language:
- Norwegian (bokmål)
- Publisher:
- Fabritius & Sønners Forlag
- Publication year:
- 1965
- Has read?
- No
"The stone cannot know why the chisel cleaves it; the iron cannot know why the fire scorches it. When thy life is cleft and scorched, when death and despair leap at thee, beat not thy breast and curse thy evil fate, but thank the Builder for the trials that shape thee."