Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Harry Hooton

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian poet Harry Hooton.
Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Harry Hooton

Henry (Harry) Arthur Hooton was an Australian poet and social commentator whose writing spanned the years 1930s–1961. He was described by a biographer as ahead of his time, or rather "of his time while the majority of progressive artists and thinkers in Australia lagged far behind". Initially a socialist and "wobbly", he later professed anarchism and became an associate of the Sydney Push during the 1940s, with connections to many other Australian writers, film makers and artists. Hooton's constant attitude and literary style was extravagant, provocative and explicitly outrageous.

Psychologists are men with nothing in their own minds, searching in the minds of others for an idea-in order to kill it.
Men must go out of their minds.
The gardener gives us roses, not gardeners. — © Harry Hooton
The gardener gives us roses, not gardeners.
Art is not an anaemic cult but a dynamic culture.
Whatever is is a movement; man is a movement-to something other than man.
If the monkeys had been concerned only with monkey Beings they would never have become men.
The seed must move to the soil; the tree must turn to the sun. The river must leave its source to reach the sea. And man must forget man, the maker, in order to make the world.
Man must move to things, to non-human matter- There is nowhere else to go.
Where man is the end, or the means, all men are mean.
The trouble with men is that they are mean-they may mean, but they don't move.
The man just is, but clothes are becoming.
We must leave these beginnings, beings, believings- man, what are you growing?
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