Australiana Serba Internet Magazine is celebrating Australia Day in a special way! We are sharing with you beautiful quotes written by some of the greatest Australian writers and poets who marked Australian and world contemporary literature! Nobel prize winner Patrick White’s, famous Aboriginal poetess Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s (Kath Walker) and few other authors’ glmpses of wisdom are our greeting for Aussies and everyone who love Australia!

Happy Australia Day!

Patrick White

(1912 – 1990)

“If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.”

“To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.”

“The map? I will first make it.”

“His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.”

“Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.”

“Life doesn’t end on the kitchen floor while there is the will to dance.”

 

Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker)

(1920 – 1993)

„Let us not be bitter, that is an empty thing,

A maggot in the mind.

The past is gone like our childhood days of old,

The future comes like dawn after the dark,

Bringing fullfilment.“

„We are the wonder tales of Dream Time,

the tribal legends told.

We are the past, the hunts and the laughing

games,

the wandering camp fires.“

„We were conquered but never subservient,

We were compelled but never servile.“

„Paint joy, not pain,

Paint beauty and happines for men,

Paint the rare insight glimpses that express

What tongue cannot or pen.“

„The waters of tomorrow

Will continue to flow,

Fot the peasant painters,

Throwing pebbles of colour

Into her streams,

Are keeping them

Fresh and moving.“

 

Judith Wright

(1915 – 2000)

„Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.“

„I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.“

„We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life.“

“We’ve observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project.”

„When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within.“

 

Miles Franklin

(1879 – 1954)

„It’s a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.“

„Heed the spark or you may dread the fire.“

„It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.“

„There is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.“

„Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.“

“Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity as a business or office needing time and strength, not as a mere passing detail thrown in among mountains of other slavery.”

Henry Lawson

(1867 – 1922)

„Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I’m at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.“

„Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.“

“The fields are fair in autumn yet, and the sun’s still shining there, but we bow our heads and we brood and fret, because of the masks we wear, Or we nod and smile the social while, and we say we’re doing well, But we break our herts! For the things we must not tell.”

„I’ve never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment.“

“And the sun sank again on the grand Australian bush – the nurse and tutor of eccentric minds, the home of the weird, and of much that is different from things in other lands.”

 

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