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Hone Tuwhare

Television (Full Length) – 1996

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Mature
The stars shall be your pearls upon a string, the world a ruby, for your finger ring.
– Hone Tuwhare
A lot of the romantic poets, like Keats and Wordsworth, they were so romantic that they forgot the world you know? Around them. The real world. Of working people, of poverty, of the fight against poverty.
– Hone Tuwhare
Do you wanna sexy poem? Wanna sexy poem? Well, have a look at this…
– Hone Tuwhare in his home
Here’s a nice one for a Christmas card, see? ‘I rap you a mini waiata. I burble it out like a tūī. Kia ora, and kia kaha! With my arohanui.’ It bloody well rhymes! Good, eh?
– Hone Tuwhare recites a jolly poem
He’s a very private person, and he came down here from Auckland so that he could write a lot of poetry.
– Kaka Point Dairy Owner Glennis Woods

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