David Malouf

thumb| David George Joseph Malouf AO (20 March 1934 – 22 April 2026) was an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright and librettist. Quotes Brisbane is so sleepy, so slatternly, so sprawlingly unlovely! I have taken to wandering about after school looking for one simple object in it that might be romantic, or appalling even, but there is nothing. It is simply the most ordinary place in the world. . . . Queensland, of course, is a joke. The Moonshine State. . . . Half of it is still wild (there are tigers as yet undiscovered in Cape York Peninsula according to some authorities), the rest detained in a sort of perpetual nineteenth century. In the main streets of towns not a hundred miles from where I am sitting they still have hitching-posts. Aborigines are herded on to reservations. Kids, even in this well-to-do suburb, go to school all the year round with bare feet. Johnno (Hammondsworth, Middx.: Penguin, 1988 [1976]), 0-14-004256-3, ch. 4, pp. 51–52 All safe as houses, fire kennelled in a matchbox, the water of drowned valleys dammed behind taps. Barring accidents, or malice — nothing's disaster-proof. "On Refusing an All-risk Insurance Policy". The Year of the Foxes and Other Poems (New York: George Braziller, 1979), 0-8076-0917-X, p. 51 Don't ask what the teacups hold. I'll tell you: you can bank on days upon days like windfalls and more. Don't mope in corners. "Four Odes of Horace: I, 9". The Year of the Foxes and Other Poems (1979), p. 32 eternal it is not, with its nine-digit numbers and children's games, graffiti chipped from the ruins of a third declension, The New Jerusalem — Rome-Babylon. "Eternal City". Neighbours in a Thicket, 2nd ed. (U of Queensland P, 1980), 0-7022-1547-3, p. 31 External links Category:Poets from Australia Category:Novelists from Australia Category:Short story writers from Australia Category:Playwrights from Australia Category:People from Brisbane Category:LGBT people