Gwen Harwood Quotes

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Poets are lovers. Critics are
mean, solitary masturbators.

Gwen Harwood

Heat like a settling animal
shivers and curls across the lake.

Gwen Harwood

Years cannot move
nor death's disorienting scale
distort those lamplit presences...

Gwen Harwood

And in a way a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.

Gwen Harwood

What's grief but the after-blindness
of the spirit's dazzle of love?

Gwen Harwood

Mother who gave me life
I think of women bearing
women. Forgive me the wisdom
I would not learn from you.

Gwen Harwood

Let music bless
all hopes, all loves, however odd.
Music, my joy, my full-scale God.

Gwen Harwood

If eternal life can be given
let me have it again as a child
among those whom I did not love
enough, while they lived.

Gwen Harwood

If by some chance I wrote
a fine immortal poem
it would have a mortal theme.

Gwen Harwood

The wind walks on the sea,
printing the water's face with charity.

Gwen Harwood

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

Gwen Harwood

The heart holds, like remembered music,
a landscape grown too dark to see.

Gwen Harwood

Gwen Harwood

Gwen Harwood

Born: June 8, 1920

Died: December 9, 1995 (aged 75)

Bio: Gwen Harwood née Gwendoline Nessie Foster was an Australian poet and librettist. Gwen Harwood is regarded as one of Australia's finest poets, publishing over 420 works, including 386 poems and 13 librettos.

Known for:

Collected poems, 1943-1995 (1991)
Mappings of the Plane: New Selected Poems
The present tense (1995)
The Best 100 Poems of Gwen Harwood
The lion's bride (1981)

Gwen Harwood on Wikipedia

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