Famous quotes containing the word selfhood:
“How selfhood begins with a walking away,
And love is proved in the letting go.”
—C. Day Lewis (20th century)
“Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“We had to take the world as it was given:
The nursemaid sitting passive in the park
Was rarely by a changeling prince accosted,
The mornings happened similar and stark
In rooms of selfhood where we woke and lay
Watching today unfold like yesterday.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)