9 Quotes by Edith Södergran

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

Tahdon seisoa tulevaisuuden rajalla ja huutaa: Ei pelota!

I live on in the sweetness of old dayswith strangers who build new dwellingson blue hills up to the edge of the sky,I talk softly with the captured treesand comfort them sometimes.How slowly time consumes the core of things,and soundlessly treads fate’s heavy heel.

In far-off lands stand the great stoneson which my thoughts rest.It was a foreigner who wrote the strange wordson the hard board that is called my soul.Days and nights I lie and thinkabout things that never happened:my thirsty soul was once given a drink.

You sought a flower and found a fruit. You sought a spring and found a sea. You sought a woman and found a soul - you are disappointed.

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.

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

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

I wanted just one thing – to disappear.