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