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Gwen Harwood
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“The wind walks on the sea, / printing the water's face with charity.”
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“Poets are lovers. Critics are / mean, solitary masturbators.”
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“What's grief but the after-blindness / of the spirit's dazzle of love?”
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“The heart holds, like remembered music, / a landscape grown too dark to see.”
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“Let music bless / all hopes, all loves, however odd. / Music, my joy, my full-scale God.”
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“If God exists / then music is his love for me.”
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“If by some chance I wrote / a fine immortal poem / it would have a mortal theme.”
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“Mother who gave me life / I think of women bearing / women. Forgive me the wisdom / I would not learn from you.”
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“Time has told me / less than I need to know.”
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“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.”
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“Heat like a settling animal / shivers and curls across the lake.”
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“Years cannot move / nor death's disorienting scale / distort those lamplit presences ...”
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“Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.”
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“... a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.”
Gwen Harwood, Australian poet
(1920 - 1995)
Full name: Gwendoline Nessie Foster Harwood. Also wrote as Frances Geyer, Walter Lehmann, Miriam Stone, Timothy Kline.