Best 5 quotes of Tove Ditlevsen on MyQuotes

Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.

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

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

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

[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.