Edith Södergran quotes

“The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”
-- Edith Södergran

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“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 Södergran

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“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 Södergran

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“I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.”
-- Edith Södergran

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“I have a luck cat in my arms, it spins threads of luck. Luck cat, luck cat, make for me three things: make for me a golden ring, to tell me that I am lucky; make for me a mirror to tell me that I am beautiful; make for me a fan to waft away my cumbersome thoughts. Luck cat, luck cat, spin for me some news of my future!”
-- Edith Södergran

Source : Edith Södergran, David McDuff (1984). “Complete poems”, Dufour Editions

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“Of all our sunny world I wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself. There I should sit with a letter at my breast, a single small letter. That is what my dream looks like.”
-- Edith Södergran

Source : Edith Södergran (1984). “Complete Poems”, Dufour Editions

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“Of all our sunny world, i wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself”
-- Edith Södergran

Source : Edith Södergran (1984). “Complete Poems”, Dufour Editions

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“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

“When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.”

“Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.”

Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book Three: Being and the Meaning of Life”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

“Freedom is never given; it is won.”

Source : Keynote speech given at the Second National Negro Congress, 1937.

“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”

“On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.”

“Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 29, 2014

“But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.”

“Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.”

“Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.”