大学生晨读美文.docx

大学生晨读美文
大学生晨读美文 and virtue
knowledge is one thing.
i can only hope that the many books which i have yet to write will be in some measure a worthier acknowledgment than i can make tonight.
and, indeed, i can accept only in the same spirit in which i think this gift was originally giventhat it is a prize not so much for what has been done, as for the future.
whatever i write in the future must, i think, be always benefited and strengthened when i remember this day.
i accept,too, for my country,the united states of america.
we are a people still young and we know that we have not yet come to the fullest of our powers.
this award, given to an american, strengthens not only one, but the whole body of american writers, who are encouraged and heartened by



such generous recognition.
and i should like to say, too, that in my country it is important that this award has been given to a woman.
you who have already so recognized your own selma lagerlof, and have long recognized women in other fields, cannot perhaps wholly understand what it means in many countries that it is a woman who stands here at this moment.
but i speak not only for writers and for women, but for all americans, for we all share in this.
i should not be truly myself