Ocupation: Poet
Life: October 6, 1662 - March 15, 1708
Birthday: October 6
Death: March 15
I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.
source: - 'Song: Of All the Torments'
Topics: Hope, Expectations, Despair
Patrick White is a strongly individual, richly gifted, original and highly significant writer whose powers are remarkable and whose achievement is large. His art is dense, poetic, and image-ridden. It is always a substantial and genuine thing. At its finest it is one which goes beyond an art of mere appearances to one of mysterious actuality.
Topics: Art, White, Achievement, Actuality