{"id":2123,"date":"2016-02-27T12:25:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T10:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2016-03-06T11:17:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T09:17:48","slug":"love-edith-sodergran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/love-edith-sodergran\/","title":{"rendered":"Love, Edith S\u00f6dergran, Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2122 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Foto-ITHACA-Edith-S\u00f6dergran.jpg\" alt=\"Foto ITHACA, Edith S\u00f6dergran\" width=\"316\" height=\"437\" \/><span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 18pt;\"> Love<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">My soul was a light blue dress, the color of the sky;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">I left it on a rock by the sea<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">and naked I came to you, looking like a woman.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">And like a woman I sat at your table<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">and drank a toast in wine, inhaling the scent of<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">some roses.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">You found me beautiful, like something you saw in<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">a dream,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">I forgot everything, I forgot my childhood and my<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">homeland,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">I only knew that your caresses held me captive.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">And smiling you held up a mirror and asked me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">to look.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">I saw that my shoulders were made of dust and<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">crumbled away,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">I saw that my beauty was sick and wished only to \u2013<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">disappear.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">Oh, hold me tight in your arms so close<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\">so that I need nothing more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Edith S\u00f6dergran<\/span> (Finland, 1892-1923)<br \/>\nPainting by <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Aleksandrina Karadjova<\/span><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love My soul was a light blue dress, the color of the sky; I left it on a rock by the sea and naked I came to you, looking like a woman. And like a woman I sat at your table and drank a toast in wine, inhaling the scent of some roses. You found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}