Gwen Harwood famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

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