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Mona Van Duyn

"The world's perverse, but it could be worse."

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Source : Mona Van Duyn (2008). “Selected Poems”, p.215, Knopf

Mona Van Duyn

“If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.”
“We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.”
“If most traders would learn to sit on their hands 50 per cent of the time, they would make a lot more money.”
“I see a New York that is once again the empire state.”
“I take my faith seriously.”
“Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself.”
“I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.”
“I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.”

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