Lessing, Doris 1997
Oh Cherry trees you are too white for my heart,
And all the ground is whitened with your dying,
And all your boughs go dipping towards the river,
And every drop is falling from my heart.
– Doris Lessing, “Oh Cherry Trees You Are Too White For My Heart”
Read an interview with Doris Lessing from the Paris Review:
The Paris Review
Doris Lessing, ca. 2006. Photograph by Elke Wetzig Doris Lessing was interviewed at the home of Robert Gottlieb, in Manhattan’s east forties. Her editor for many years at Knopf, Mr. Gottlieb was then the editor of The New Yorker.
Impenetrable, those walls, we thought,
Dark with ancient shields. The light
Shone on the head of a girl or young limbs
Spread carelessly. And the low voices
Rose in the silence and were lost as in water.
– Doris Lessing, “Fable”
Watch Doris Lessing discuss her writing career:
Doris Lessing on her writing career
Doris Lessing shares anecdotes from her life as a writer. She was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. More about Doris Lessing at http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/lessing-facts.html
