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Down in the bottom of my childhood my father stands laughing.

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Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.

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My poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.

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My childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would last until I was grown up.

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Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen

Born: December 14, 1917
Died: March 7, 1976 (aged 58)
Bio: Tove Irma Margit Ditlevsen was a Danish poet and author.
Known for:
  1. Barndommens gade (1941)
  2. The Faces (1968)
  3. Early Spring (1969)
  4. Til en lille pige
  5. Dolken (1963)

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