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American poet and academic (d. 2004)
, Birth:
9-5-1921
, Death:
2-12-2004
1.
The world's perverse, but it could be worse.
Mona Van Duyn
2.
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
3.
Love' is finding the familiar dear. / 'In love' is to be taken by surprise.
Mona Van Duyn
4.
There is no disorder but the heart's.
Mona Van Duyn
5.
I bless / all knowledge of love, all ways of publishing it.
Mona Van Duyn
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