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Galway Kinnell quotes: It was more or less late afternoonand I came over a hilltopand smack in front of me was the sunset.

It was more or less late afternoon
and I came over a hilltop
and smack in front of me was the sunset.

Galway Kinnell quotes: Prose is walking; poetry is flying

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

Galway Kinnell quotes: The budstands for all things,even for those things that don't flower

The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don't flower

Galway Kinnell quotes: The first step in the journey is to lose your way.

The first step in the journey is to lose your way.

Galway Kinnell quotes: The secret title of every good poem might be 'Tenderness

The secret title of every good poem might be 'Tenderness

Galway Kinnell quotes: Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.

Kiss the mouth
which tells you,
here,
here is the world.
This mouth. This laughter.
These temple bones.

Galway Kinnell quotes: This happened to your father and to you, Galway-sick to stay, longingto come up against the ends of the earth, and climb over.

This happened to your father and to you, Galway-sick to stay, longing
to come up against the ends of the earth, and climb over.

Galway Kinnell quotes: Go so deep into yourself, you speak for everyone.

Go so deep into yourself, you speak for everyone.

Galway Kinnell quotes: Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness

Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness

Galway Kinnell quotes: I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.

I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.

Galway Kinnell quotes: The first step ... shall be to lose the way.

The first step ... shall be to lose the way.

Galway Kinnell quotes: Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?

Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?

Galway Kinnell quotes: Let our scars fall in love.

Let our scars fall in love.

Galway Kinnell quotes: When a group of people get up from a table, the table doesn'tknow which way any of them will go.

When a group of people get up from a table, the table doesn't
know which way any of them will go.

Galway Kinnell quotes: Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.

Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.

Galway Kinnell quotes: The wages of dying are love.

The wages of dying are love.

Galway Kinnell quotes: I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.

I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.

Galway Kinnell quotes: Isn't it worth missing whatever joy / you might have dreamed, to wake in the night and find / you and your beloved are holding hands in your sleep?

Isn't it worth missing whatever joy / you might have dreamed, to wake in the night and find / you and your beloved are holding hands in your sleep?

Galway Kinnell quotes: maybe there is no sublime; only the shining of the amnion's tatters.

maybe there is no sublime; only the shining of the amnion's tatters.

Galway Kinnell quotes: That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

Galway Kinnell quotes: Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love