Mona Van Duyn Quotes

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

  Mona Van Duyn

  World

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

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• One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob.

  Mona Van Duyn

  Grandmother, Thinking, Hands

  Mona Van Duyn (1990). “Near changes: poems”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• I bless / all knowledge of love, all ways of publishing it.

  Mona Van Duyn

  Way, Bless, Publishing

  Mona Van Duyn (2008). “Selected Poems”, p.103, Knopf

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• There is no disorder but the heart's.

  Mona Van Duyn

  Heart, Disorder

  Mona Van Duyn (2008). “Selected Poems”, p.57, Knopf

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• Love' is finding the familiar dear. / 'In love' is to be taken by surprise.

  Mona Van Duyn

  Taken, Love Is, Surprise

  Mona Van Duyn (2008). “Selected Poems”, p.189, Knopf

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• The end / of passion / may refashion / a friend.

  Mona Van Duyn

  Heartbreak, Passion, May

  Mona Van Duyn (1993). “Firefall: poems”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• In politics, arts / no issue's dramatic / nor will 'play' till its heart's / simplified to fanatic.

  Mona Van Duyn

  Art, Play, Issues

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