Edith Södergran > Quotes

“The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”
― Edith Södergran

“My self-confidence comes from the fact that I have discovered my own dimensions. It does not behoove me to make myself smaller than I am.”
― Edith Södergran

“Love

My soul was a light-blue gown, sky-coloured;
I left it on a cliff by the sea
and naked I came to you, resembling a woman.
And like a woman I sat at your table
and drank a toast with wine and breathed in the scent of several roses.
You found me beautiful, resembling something you'd seen dreaming,
I forgot everything, I forgot my childhood and my homeland,
I knew only that your caresses held me captive.
And, smiling, you took up a mirror and bade me look.
I saw that my shoulders were made of dust and crumbled away,
I saw that my beauty was sick and had no desire other than to - disappear.
Oh, hold me close in your arms, so tightly that I need nothing.”
― Edith Södergran, Poems

“Min selvsikkerhed beror på, at jeg har opdaget mine dimensioner. Det er ikke min sag at gøre mig mindre end jeg er”
― Edith Södergran

“Nu ville vi säga dig ditt livs hemlighet:
nyckeln till alla hemligheter ligger i gräset i hallonbacken.
Vi ville stöta dig för pannan, du sovande,
vi ville väcka dig, döda, ur din sömn.”
― Edith Södergran, Edith Södergrans dikter

“Gå ikke alltför nära dina drömmar:
de äro en osanning, de borde gå -
de äro ett vansinne, de vilja stanna.”
― Edith Södergran, Complete Poems