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A. D. Hope

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Also known as Alec Derwent Hope

Australian poet and essayist (1907-2000)

Person · Open Library

Born
1907
Died
2000
Works
38

Top works

  • The shorter poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus
  • The scythe honed fine
  • Sightlines 9
  • The wandering islands
  • A.D. Hope

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Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Brisbane
Active from
2000

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Quotes

  • Adam had learned the jolly deed of kind:He took her in his arms and there and thenLike the clean beasts, embracing from behind,Began in joy to found the breed of men.
  • Quaking muscles in the act of birth,Between her legs a pigmy face appear,And the first murderer lay upon the earth.
  • Remembering how I planned to break the journey, to drive My own car one day, to have choice in my hands and my foot upon power, To see through the trumpet throat of vertiginous perspective My urgent Now explode continually into flower, To be the Eater of Time, a poet and not that sly Anus of mind the historian. It was so simple and plain To live by the sole, insatiable influx of the eye. But something went wrong with the plan: I am still on the train.
  • No hunter of the Age of Fable Had need to buckle in his belt; More game than he was ever able To take ran wild upon the veldt; Each night with roast he stocked his table, Then procreated on the pelt. And that is how, of course, there came At last to be more men than game.
  • Darwin's daughters have no tails, Yet a reminiscent motion Agitates the lovely frails At the seat of amputation. Charles called Eve and Adam lies And denied the garden state, Yet the gait of Paradise Could not wholly liquidate.

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date of birth
1907-07-21
date of death
2000-07-13
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