Judith Wright

“Breathe in experience, breathe out poetry.”

“The only true history of a country is written in its songs.”

“Grace is what matters, in anything... after grace, you can drink booze, throw bombs, and vote democrat.”

“Poetry is the most economical way of saying things that are difficult to say.”

“The voice of the land is in the wind.”

“Our love is edged with fire.”

“So we are shaped by what we love.”

“The best of all weapons is a weapon I don't have to use.”

“But the land I praise is still not mine.”

“All things are proved on the body, all loves and hatreds, friendship and betrayal.”

“The artist must be a monster of courage.”

“Full night; I float on a dark river, leading from known to unknown.”

“There is no Eden, and no Adam's fall, but the eternal parting of the ways.”

“I am the crossroad of devotions.”