a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it. — Gwen Harwood Copy Share
Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun. — Gwen Harwood Copy Share
Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind. — Gwen Harwood Copy Share
