Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Tove Ditlevsen

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen.

Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Tove Irma Margit Ditlevsen was a Danish poet and author. With published works in a variety of genres, she was one of Denmark's best-known authors by the time of her death.

Danish - Poet | December 14, 1917 - March 7, 1976

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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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[On her mother:] My relationship with her is close, painful, and skaky, and I always have to keep searching for a sign of love. Everything I do, I do to please her, to make her smile, to ward off her fury. This work is extremely exhausting.

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