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

  Light, Grace, Mind

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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

  Fun, Philosophical, Poetry

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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

  Wine, Reality, Glasses

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• Time has told me less than I need to know.

  Gwen Harwood

  Time, Needs, Knows

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

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• What's grief but the after-blindness/of the spirit's dazzle of love?

  Gwen Harwood

  Grief, Dazzle, Spirit

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

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