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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Inger (Hals?r) Hagerup
In "Om lyrikk" (On Poetry), published in the magazine Kvinnen og tiden (The Woman and the Time) in 1953 and collected in her Østenfor kjærlighet, vestenfor drøm: prosa gjennom 30 år (East of Love, West of Dream: Prose through 30 Years, 1977), Inger Hagerup argues that the great poets of the world possess a stronger and more penetrating gift for expressing visions of unity than the rest of humanity:
Vi prøver jo alle sammen mer eller mindre bevisst å skape en sammenheng i vårt liv--en slags orden--og nå fram til stadig dypere erkjennelse både om det som skjer ute i denne verden og det som skjer inne i oss. Men det er ikke lett.
(We all try, more or less consciously, to create a wholeness in our life--a sort of order--and thereby reach a deeper knowledge about what happens...
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