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Dilys Laing

  • “To be a woman and a writer / is double mischief, for the world will slight her / who slights 'the servile house,' and who would rather / make odes than beds.”

    • Dilys Laing,
    • "Sonnet to a Sister in Error," Collected Poems ()

  • “... memory is a storm I can't repel.”

    • Dilys Laing,
    • "Venus Petrified," Collected Poems ()

  • “The woman took a train / away from herself. / She thought: I need a change / and wheels make revolutions.”

    • Dilys Laing,
    • "The Double Goer," Collected Poems ()

Dilys Laing, Canadian poet

(1906 - 1960)

Full name: Dilys Bennett Laing.