Bruce Dawe quotes

Bruce Dawe quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“One constant in a world of variables - a man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables. and all the things he takes down with him there, where the easement runs along the back fence.”
-- Bruce Dawe

Source : Bruce Dawe (1971). “Condolences of the season: selected poems”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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“Hearing the sound of your breathing as you sleep, with the dog at your feet, his head resting on a shoe, and the clock's ticking like water dripping in a sink -- I know that, even if reincarnation were a fact, given the inherent cruelty of the world where beautiful things and people are blasted apart all the day long, I would never want to come back, knowing I could never be this lucky twice...”
-- Bruce Dawe

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