There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die Quotes

“I sit in the field, lost in the summer breeze among the grain and white clouds. My life is a holiday, everything is bliss, I am at peace with all living things.”
― Tove Ditlevsen, There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems

“she stumbles home alone
in the much too small
shoes bought for the occasion –
this little aspirant
whose steps are pulled out
from under her –
she who still feels
that the Earth is turning –
enviable and
vulnerable
still convinced fame is
something other than being
scattered and dissolved
and having the stones of one’s
foundation disarrayed”
― Tove Ditlevsen, There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems