Edith Sodergran Quotes

Enjoy the top 9 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Edith Sodergran.

“I live on in the sweetness of old days
with strangers who build new dwellings
on blue hills up to the edge of the sky,
I talk softly with the captured trees
and comfort them sometimes.
How slowly time consumes the core of things,
and soundlessly treads fates heavy heel.”
— Edith Sodergran —

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

— Edith Sodergran

“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 Sodergran

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 Sodergran

“I am no woman. I am a neuter.
I am a child, a page-boy, and a bold decision,
I am a laughing glimpse of a burning sun
I am a net for all voracious fish,
I am a toast to every woman's honor,
I am a step toward chance and disaster,
I am a leap in freedom and the self
I am the blood's whisper in a man's ear,
I am the soul's shiver, the flesh's longing and denial,
I am an entry sign to new paradises
I am a flame, seeking and jolly,
I am a water, deep, but daring up to the knees,
I am fire and water, in sincere context, on free term”

— Edith Sodergran

“Ripe summer's sweetness dripped
in pearls from every tree
and into my opened heart
a little drop ran down.”

— Edith Sodergran

“That the stars are adamant
everyone understands
but I won't give up seeking joy on each blue wave
or peace below every gray stone.”

— Edith Sodergran

“Of all our sunny world, i wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself”

— Edith Sodergran

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

— Edith Sodergran