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Early Spring (1969)
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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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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe
Tove Ditlevsen
Born:
December 14, 1917
Died:
March 7, 1976
(aged 58)
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