Edith Sodergran Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Edith Sodergran

#4. Of all our sunny world, i wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself

Edith Sodergran

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

Edith Sodergran

#6. In far-off lands stand the great stones
on which my thoughts rest.
It was a foreigner who wrote the strange words
on the hard board that is called my soul.
Days and nights I lie and think
about things that never happened:
my thirsty soul was once given a drink.

Edith Sodergran

#7. Homecoming

My childhood's trees stand rejoicing around me: O human!
and the grass bids me welcome from foreign lands.
I lean my head in the grass: now home at last.

Edith Sodergran

#8. The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

Edith Sodergran

#9. 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 fate's heavy heel.

Edith Sodergran