Mona Van Duyn quotes
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“The world's perverse, but it could be worse.”
-- Mona Van DuynSource : Mona Van Duyn (2008). “Selected Poems”, p.215, Knopf
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“One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob ...”
-- Mona Van DuynSource : Mona Van Duyn (1990). “Near changes: poems”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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“The end / of passion / may refashion / a friend.”
-- Mona Van DuynSource : Mona Van Duyn (1993). “Firefall: poems”, Alfred A. Knopf
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“Love' is finding the familiar dear. / 'In love' is to be taken by surprise.”
-- Mona Van DuynSource : Mona Van Duyn (2008). “Selected Poems”, p.189, Knopf
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“I bless / all knowledge of love, all ways of publishing it.”
-- Mona Van DuynSource : Mona Van Duyn (2008). “Selected Poems”, p.103, Knopf
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“There is no disorder but the heart's.”
-- Mona Van DuynSource : Mona Van Duyn (2008). “Selected Poems”, p.57, Knopf
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“In politics, arts / no issue's dramatic / nor will 'play' till its heart's / simplified to fanatic.”
-- Mona Van Duyn
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“A divided heart loses both worlds.”
Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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“Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.”
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Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press
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Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics
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