Gwen Harwood quotes

“Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind.”
-- Gwen Harwood

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“Time has told me less than I need to know.”
-- Gwen Harwood

Source : Gwen Harwood (2011). “Gwen Harwood: Selected Poems”, p.241, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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

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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.”
-- Gwen Harwood

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“What's grief but the after-blindness/of the spirit's dazzle of love?”
-- Gwen Harwood

Source : Gwen Harwood (2011). “Gwen Harwood: Selected Poems”, p.80, ReadHowYouWant.com

#Grief Quotes #Dazzle Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.”

“Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.”

Source : Susan Dunlap (2012). “The Bohemian Connection”, p.7, Open Road Media

“There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.”

“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”

“Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.”

“The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.”

“Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.”

“There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.”

“Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.”

Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book Three: Being and the Meaning of Life”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

“Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?”