Olav H. Hauge Quotes

• Don’t bring the ocean if I feel thirsty, nor heaven if I ask for a light; but bring a hint, some dew, a particle, as birds carry only drops away from water, and the wind a grain of salt.

  Olav H. Hauge

  Ocean, Light, Wind

  Olav H. Hauge (1987). “Trusting Your Life to Water and Eternity: Twenty Poems of Olav H. Hauge”

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• It is that dream we carry that something miraculous will happen that it must happen - that time will open that the heart will open that doors will open and that the rock face will open that springs will gush forth - that the dream will open and that one morning we'll glide in to a harbour we didn't know was there.

  Olav H. Hauge

  Dream, Morning, Spring

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• You have to conquer the mountain if you are going any futher

  Olav H. Hauge

  Mountain, Conquer, Ifs

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• I, too, have stars/ and blue depths.

  Olav H. Hauge

  Stars, Blue, Depth

  Olav H. Hauge (2008). “The Dream We Carry: Selected and Last Poems of Olav H. Hauge”, p.5, Copper Canyon Press

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