Elsa Gidlow Quotes

Canadian-American poet

Elsa Gidlow (29 December 1898 – 8 June 1986) was an English-born, Canadian-American poet, freelance journalist, and philosopher. She is best known for writing On A Grey Thread (1923), possibly the first volume of openly lesbian love poetry published in North America, and for helping to establish Druid Heights, a bohemian community in Marin County, California.

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We are returned to mystery and the power of cooperating with life—rather than, as so often now, working against it.

If there was a problem connected with my being a lesbian, even after I became aware of it, it was the loneliness, the fact that I didn't know anybody else like me.

We consider the artist a special sort of person. It is more likely that each of us is a special sort of artist.

Elsa Gidlow Quotes

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