David Campbell (poet)

David Watt Ian Campbell (16 July 1915 – 29 July 1979) was an Australian poet who wrote over 15 volumes of prose and poetry. He was also a talented rugby union player who represented England in two tests.

Quotes

  • The cruel girls we loved
    Are over forty.
    Their subtle daughters
    Have stolen their beauty;
    And with a blue stare
    Of cool surprise,
    They mock their anxious mothers
    With their mothers' eyes.
    • "Mothers and Daughters", in Judith Wright (ed.) A Book of Australian Verse (Melbourne: Oxford UP, 1968) p. 212
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