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Alison Croggon

Alison Croggon Books

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Alison Croggon is an Australian poet born in 1962. Her works are known for their deep emotional expression and social commentary. Croggon's poetry collections have won numerous literary awards in Australia, and her poetry has been widely translated and recognized internationally.

The Naming

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The Crow

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The River and the Book

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“Maerad was pierced by a sudden grief, and briefly forgot all about pretense and masks: the world was too cruel for play.”

Emotion Feeling

Book:The Naming

Source: The Naming

“It is ever the way of the Knowing. I have often thought it is like a light blooming on a dark sea: as it increases, so does the depth and size of the unknown. The most wise are those who know how little they know!”

Wisdom Knowledge Knowing Cadvan Quotes

Book:The Naming

Source: The Naming

“There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is not being willing to learn.”

Science Inspirational Quotes Passion Knowledge Study Curiosity Willpower Academia Student Quotes Understanding Oneself And Others

Book:The Naming

Source: The Naming

“...only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.”

Despair Wings Description Beautiful Language Disuse

Book:The Naming

Source: The Naming

“Unlike the back streets, the road boiled with people.”

People Water Crowd Boil

Book:The Crow

Source: The Crow

“Often what you humans call chance is instead the workings of a deeper pattern, which the casual eye cannot easily perceive.”

Chance Destiny Fate Providence

Book:The Naming

Source: The Naming

“Perhaps Dernhil knew there was no time. He had foresight..." Cadvan sighed and looked away. "But he was ever one who looked clearly into his own heart. That is the beauty of his poems. Would that all of us were so lucid.”

Heart Real Clear Realistic

Book:The Singing

Source: The Singing

“I watched as the stars faded and the landscape began to materialize out of the night and become solid again, and the rim of the world grew rose-pink and deepened to orange and then split with molten gold, and the first rays of the sun speared the wide, empty plains.”

Book:The River and the Book

Source: The River and the Book

“I'd rather you wanted to make love,' said Dernhil, smiling crookedly. 'That was my first thought, when you barged in here. I could easily refuse that.' 'It's a much lesser question,' said Cadvan gravely. Then he gave Dernhil a sharp look. 'Would you really refuse me?' 'Probably.' Dernhil's eyes brimmed with sudden laughter. 'Honestly, Cadvan, have you no grace? What a thing to ask!' Cadvan's rare smile smile leapt in his face. 'It occurs to me that I might love you well enough.' Dernhil looked briefly astonished. 'And to think that all these years I thought you hated me!' he said lightly. 'You know I don't hate you,' said Cadvan. 'I think you know I never did. Nor you me. And you, maybe more than anyone else I know, understands that there are many kinds of love.' He gestured impatiently. 'That's not what I'm asking, anyway.' 'I know.' Dernhil met his gaze darkly. 'Only you would demand such a thing, in the middle of the night, from me, of all people!' 'Yes,' said Cadvan, a soft mockery in his voice. 'From you, of all people!' Dernhil looked down at his hands and was silent for a time, thinking. Cadvan waited patiently, watching him. When Dernhil looked up, his face was open, and a smile lurked in the back of his eyes. 'Perhaps I love you enough to scary you, Cadvan,' he said. 'And that is a great deal more than you deserve.' p.146”

Love Truth Friendship Bard Pellinor

Book:The Bone Queen

Source: The Bone Queen

“...she felt as if her entire body were glowing with the taste of sunlight, of wind blowing in wide spaces and trees reaching their burdened arms to boundless skies.”

Joy Description Sunlight Beautiful Language

Book:The Naming

Source: The Naming

“The taste on her palate was pungent and rich, the flavor of woodlands and dark earth simmered in sunshine.”

Taste Sunshine Flavor Beautiful Writing Beautiful Language

Book:The Naming

Source: The Naming

“All the fears and doubts surrounding her grief and regrets were swept up into the tempest of the music, poising here in the centre of the moment, a clear vessel of joy.”

Book:The Riddle

Source: The Riddle

“Speak to me, fair maid! Speak and do not go! What sorrows have your eyes inlaid With such black woe? My dam is buried deep Dark are my father's halls And carrion fowl and wolves now keep Their ruined walls From: The Lay of Andomian and Beruldh”

Inspirational Romance The Gift

Book:The Naming

Source: The Naming

“A man cannot eat more than three meals a day, or live in more than one house at a time. If you have what you need, and more than you need, what is the use of adding to it?”

Book:The Crow

Source: The Crow

“They are caught between one world and another, and they no longer belong anywhere.”

First Nations Indigenous Peoples Aboriginal Australians

Book:The River and the Book

Source: The River and the Book

“She ached: oh, how she ached. Her soul was like one big bruise.”

Soul Hurt Beautiful Writing

Book:The Naming

Source: The Naming

“It is the pain of being in the world, where so much that is fair passes into death and forgetfulness. But if we are to know joy, we must embrace that pain. You cannot have one without the other." Maerad nodded, her face downcast. Sometimes, it seemed to her, the pain far outweighed the joy.”

Life Light Pain Joy Dark Meaningness

Book:The Riddle

Source: The Riddle

“What difference, being a pawn for the Light or a pawn for the Dark?" There was a short silence. "There is a great difference," said Cadvan softly. "One difference is that for the Dark, certainly you are a pawn. For the Light, you are a free human being, free to make mistakes, to do wrong, even. You are free to choose, whether or not you believe it." "Funny idea of freedom." "It is the difference between committment and slavery," Cadvan said. "Between working for what you hope for and believe in the depths of your heart, and what someone else forces you to do.”

Light Dark Freedom Slavery Free Will Bondage

Book:The Naming

Source: The Naming

“At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wildflower, the distant bleat and clink of grazing goats.”

Way Sun Summer Blue Edges Far Away Bees Unimportant Goats Wildflowers Birdsong Grazing

Author:Alison Croggon

“I shall never complain of the tedium of the city again.”

Cities Complaining Tedium

Author:Alison Croggon

“Drunk with beauty, I tore down Armfuls of blossoms. How desolate the marred sky!”

Sky Drunk Desolate

Author:Alison Croggon

“Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know that a choice is not choice and breeds slow ills, even were it done for the highest reasons.”

Knows World Long Has Beens I Can Ends Reason Done Enough Choices This World Highest

Author:Alison Croggon

“Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, Maerad: to love is never wrong. It may be disastrous; it may never be possible; it may be the deepest agony. But it is never wrong.”

May Said Lasts Love Is One Thing Mystery Agony Truest

Author:Alison Croggon

“It is only the darkness in our own hearts that will defeat us, in the end.”

Heart Ends Darkness Defeat

Author:Alison Croggon

“Nothing is ever truly gone... Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and all our sorrow." -Hem at Zelika's grave”

Humans Joy Human Beings Gone Source Sorrow Graves Endless Guests Enchantment Hem

Author:Alison Croggon

“It is not given to us to know what difference we can make, and perhaps we can make no difference at all. But that is no reason not to make the attempt," said Saliman quietly. "The Light shines more brightly in the darkness.”

Knows Said Reason Light Success Given Differences Darkness Shining No Reason

Author:Alison Croggon

“Triple tongued is triple named”

Author:Alison Croggon

“I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck”

Thinking Stuck Hawks

Author:Alison Croggon

“It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.”

Ifs World Food Honor Clothes Fairs Dresses Celebrate Manners Host Guests Dine

Author:Alison Croggon

“We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.”

Mean Doe Sometimes Evil Mistake Consequence Trusted Mistaken Wrong Things Not Trusting

Author:Alison Croggon

“While the heart beats, hope lingers.”

Heart Beats Heart Beat

Author:Alison Croggon

“Some say an army of horsemen some an army on foot others say ships laden for war are the fairest things on earth. But I say the fairest sight on this dark earth is the face of the one you love. Nor is it hard to understand: love has humbled the hearts of the proudest queens. And I would rather see you now stepping over my threshold than any soldier greaved in gold or any iron-beaked ship.”

Heart War Hard Earth Faces Dark Feet Gold Sight Army Soldier Ships Queens Iron Threshold One You Love Horsemen

Author:Alison Croggon

“And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.”

Different Together Knowing Singing Wide Subtle Braids

Author:Alison Croggon

“You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift. . . . I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed.”

Heart Stills Pain Suffering Doubtful Great Hearts

Author:Alison Croggon

“Elednor,' he said, 'Elednor, why have you betrayed me? Come back to me. Come back to were you belong. I alone need you.”

Needs Said Betrayed Need You Come Back To Me

Author:Alison Croggon

“You see aright. I am both Queen and Elidhu, here and there, wildfire and hearthfire, forgetting and remembrance. But do no yet speak of this, for men are impatient with such things and do not brook contradiction.”

Men Speak Forget Queens Contradiction Remembrance Here And There Impatient Brooks Wildfires

Author:Alison Croggon

“And then like thunder broke the frost, The chill wall fell, and morrowless Immortal maid and man embraced, Their light and shadow mingling.”

Men Light Wall Shadow Broke Immortal Thunder Chill Frost Maids Light And Shadow Mingling

Author:Alison Croggon

“There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.”

Knowing Willing Shame Not Knowing Knowing Something Willing To Learn

Author:Alison Croggon

“I think you are a liar because you think you know what is true. You think you feel what is true. But you do not yet know what you do feel and what you do know. Your desire and do not take; you love and are too afraid to feel your love; you conceal your vanity and pettiness from yourself; you are afraid to look into your soul and see what you are. That iis why i think you are a liar.”

Thinking Knows Feels Looks Soul Desire Love You Vanity Your Soul Liars True You You Think You Know Pettiness

Author:Alison Croggon

“Love is never easy. We begin by loving the things we can, according to our stature, but it is not long before we find that what we love is other than ourselves and that our love is no protection against being wounded. Do we then speak to dominate what we love, to make it bend to our will, to stop it from hurting us even though to do so is to betray love? And that is only where the difficulty begins.”

Long Speak Easy Hurt Love Is Difficulty Protection Betray Wounded Our Love Stature

Author:Alison Croggon

“By the light," he said, when he had mastered himself. "I think that beats singing a lullaby to a stormdog for simplicity and economy, Maerad. But I wish I had known that you simply had to blow at Hulls to get rid of them. It would have saved me a few scars.”

Thinking Said Light Wish Known Economy Beats Singing Simplicity Blow Saved Scar Lullaby Hull

Author:Alison Croggon

“Many forgotten things live still in children's tales.”

Children Stills Forgotten Tales Forgotten Things

Author:Alison Croggon

“Never be ashamed of your love," he said gently. "The only thing to be ashamed of is denying your love. That is what makes the shadow grow within your heart; that is the darkening of the Light. And we all have many loves.”

Heart Said Light Grows Shadow Ashamed Darkening

Author:Alison Croggon

“Light blooms the brighter in the darkest places.”

Author:Alison Croggon

“It is far better to put away fear than to be driven by it.”

Author:Alison Croggon

“The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.”

Forget Half Good Things Optimistic Frightened

Author:Alison Croggon

“Old friend,' said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. 'If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated.”

Ifs Said Rich Glasses Smell Defeated Filling Old Friends Sniffing

Author:Alison Croggon

“I would rather die than stay there." "Well, you might die.”

Wells Might Dies

Author:Alison Croggon

“What difference, being a pawn for the Light or a pawn for the Dark?" "There is a great difference. One difference is that for the Dark, certainly, you are a pawn. For the Light, you are a free human being, free to make mistakes, to do wrong, even. You are free to choose, whether or not you believe it.”

Believe Humans Light Differences Dark Human Beings Mistake Making Mistakes Being Free Pawns

Author:Alison Croggon

“Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light.”

I Can Helping Light Dark Dangerous Uncertain Your Future

Author:Alison Croggon

About the Author

Born: 1962
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 54

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