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Tove Irma Margit Ditlevsen (14 December 1917 – 7 March 1976) was a Danish poet and author.

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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.

Childhood, Grown, Looks, Moments, Threadbare, Tired

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

Childhood, Completely, Places, Poetry, Scab, Skins

I fear
the place I have
in the memory of others.
They remind me of things
I myself have forgot.

Forgot, Memories, Memory, Place, Remind, Things

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

Experience, Library, Memories, Memory, Rest, Soul

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

Childhood, Coffins, Like, Long

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

Childhood, Down, Father, Laughing, Stands

[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.

Mother, Make Her Smile, Painful, Work, Fury, Extremely

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