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Ingrid Andersen Quotes

born 1965 South Africa

Ingrid Andersen (born 1965) is a South African poet. She is also the editor of Incwadi, a South African online journal of poetry and photography.

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Love God with everything you have and everything you are, and love those around you as you love yourself. The rest is just detail.

We’re living in a time where changing technology challenges us to stay relevant almost on a daily basis.

I married very young – to a brilliant and immensely destructive man whom I met at university. Twelve years of that marriage nearly destroyed me. I chose to end the marriage and to survive.

The most important thing I’ve learned from motherhood is to love your family and your friends as much as you can and let them know as often as you can. Parenting keeps you humble and grounded.

God is a great recycler – he took a broken, shattered woman and slowly breathed life into her again. I began to trust people enough to make some wonderful friends. I began to believe in myself again.

Someone has to do something about the pain and the poverty, and I’ve been given a good set of resources to do it. So I get stuck in and I get very motivated by watching the change take place in people’s lives.

It is a first collection, and there are no South African publishing houses that can afford to take risks on poetry collections anymore, let alone new poets. I believed in the work and wanted to put it out there.

I remember being read to as a child. I read to my own son every night until he was able to read books for himself. I confess that I enjoyed it as much as he did. I did all the voices.

The first poem in my childhood notebook was written when I was eleven. It was a poem about the conflict I felt when my cat had slaughtered a bird. I don’t remember much about my writing before then, just that I always escaped into words.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ingrid Andersen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.