One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob. Mona Van Duyn More Quotes by Mona Van Duyn More Quotes From Mona Van Duyn The world's perverse, but it could be worse. Mona Van Duyn world Love' is finding the familiar dear. / 'In love' is to be taken by surprise. Mona Van Duyn surprise taken love-is I bless / all knowledge of love, all ways of publishing it. Mona Van Duyn bless publishing way There is no disorder but the heart's. Mona Van Duyn disorder heart The end / of passion / may refashion / a friend. Mona Van Duyn heartbreak passion may In politics, arts / no issue's dramatic / nor will 'play' till its heart's / simplified to fanatic. Mona Van Duyn issues play art