Top 20 Quotes About Gwen Harwood
#2. Yes, there's plenty of fish in the sea, but be gifted with a rare catch: that one which lives with "forever faithfulness." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You
Angelica Hopes
#3. What's grief but the after-blindness/of the spirit's dazzle of love?
Gwen Harwood
#4. Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back.
Martha Stout
#5. A poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.
Gwen Harwood
#6. Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#7. Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spirit.
Kin Hubbard
#8. Do stop flirting with my husband," said Tessa.
"I shall not," Magnus declared, "but I will pause briefly so that I may catch up on your news.
Cassandra Clare
#9. Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.
Gwen Harwood
#10. Regular readers will know I'm a fan of (Cristiano) Ronaldo, and an even bigger fan of the man who's assumed his mantle with quite astonishing success, Wayne Rooney. But Messi is on a higher plain than even that pair.
Andy Cole
#11. I think a lot of our problems are because people don't listen to our children. It is not always easy. They're not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
Barbara Bush
#12. Time has told me less than I need to know.
Gwen Harwood
#13. Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind.
Gwen Harwood
#14. Depending on what you allow, you can still get the blues, man. I'm still trying to figure out where the blues really lies, where the street is.
Christian Scott
#15. There is no paradise except that which we create in the great tomb of the churches. There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living.
Henri Barbusse
#16. I've played characters who are dark and have done things I never have experienced, which is why I try to find the reasons why they do what they do. We're all people, and go through similar emotions.
Michael Eklund
#17. As a young man, I felt a need to communicate with somebody or something, but it seemed in my own particular environment that that wasn't an option. On the other hand, I probably lacked the courage to do so, even if it was an option.
Nick Tosches
#18. Running a boat isn't that hard. Just takes doing. Most or all women I ever knew were discouraged from running boats, but it was too late with me.
Diane Wilson
#19. My books have very few villains pretending to be righteous, but they are filled with good people who have pretended to be villains so well that they believe it themselves. This is how I like to view reality.
Kenneth Everett
#20. Picture two lovers side by side who sleep and dream and wake to hold the real and the imagined world body by body, word by word in the wild halo of their thought
Gwen Harwood
