Now that spring is no longer to be recognised in blossoms or in new leaves on trees, I must look for it in myself. I feel the ice of myself cracking. I feel myself loosen and flow again, reflecting the world. That is what spring means.
What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of conscious… - David Malouf
What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of conscious…
- David Malouf
All the things we achieve are things we have first of all imagined. - David Malouf
All the things we achieve are things we have first of all imagined.
I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think - David Malouf
I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think
I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It is that which drives u… - David Malouf
I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It is that which drives u…
Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us t… - David Malouf
Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us t…
We are continuous with all the particles of our physical being, as in our breathing we are continuous with the sky. Between our bodies and the world … - David Malouf
We are continuous with all the particles of our physical being, as in our breathing we are continuous with the sky. Between our bodies and the world …
With all those prizes the most interesting thing is getting on to the shortlist, because that tells you who people see as your peers. - David Malouf
With all those prizes the most interesting thing is getting on to the shortlist, because that tells you who people see as your peers.
I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up. - David Malouf
I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.
I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is always the most exotic pl… - David Malouf
I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is always the most exotic pl…
Login to join the discussion
Login to join the discussion