User:Sselinozcan/Nobel Edebiyat Ödülü alan yazarların sözleri

1901- Sully Prudhomme
•	The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise up.

1902- Theodor Mommsen
•	Without passion, there is no genius.

1903- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
•	Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.

1904- Frédéric Mistral
•	When the Good Lord begins to doubt the world, he remembers that he created Provence.

1904- José Echegaray
•	Do not cry, show to these people that you are brave. It is an honor to die for one’s country. Not everybody has that chance.

1905- Henryk Sienkiewicz
•	The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.

1906- Giosuè Carducci
•	Who, being able to say one thing in ten words, uses twelve, I consider him capable of the worst actions.

1907- Rudyard Kipling
•	You stand and fall by your own work, remember, and it’s waste of time to think of any one else in this battle.

1908- Rudolf Christoph Eucken
•	In coming closer to nature, man shows himself superior to it.

1909- Selma Lagerlöf
•	Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.

1910- Paul Heyse
•  I was born in Berlin on March 15, 1830, the second son of the royal university professor K. W. L. Heyse and his wife Julie, nee Saaling, who came from a Jewish family.

1911- Maurice Maeterlinck
•	When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

1912- Gerhart Hauptmann
•	Experience is the basis of poetry.

1913- Rabindranath Tagore
•	Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

1915- Romain Rolland
•	There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it

1916- Verner von Heidenstam
•	I do not know why I'm awake, though the day gave no joy, but everything in my life, which, like the sun, shone, and all that was drowned in darkness and anguish, the darrari night in a river of glitter.

1917- Karl Adolph Gjellerup
•	Thor sang: Who is Svend among the attendants, who beyond Sundet stand?

1917- Henrik Pontoppidan
•	This thought has been ascribed to Voltaire: If God did not exist, mankind would have invented Him. I find more truth in the reverse: If there really is a God, then we should seek to forget Him, to raise up men who will to do good for goodness’ sake, not out of fear of punishment for their bad deeds. How can someone give alms to a poor man with a clean heart when he believes, and has an interest in believing, that there is a God who keeps score in heaven, who looks down and nods in approval?

1919- Carl Spitteler
•	Halt silent, my dear, and take me with you! The evening is nigh, and the summit is remote. I will play for Kurzweil a ditty like.

1920- Knut Hamsun
•	I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye.