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Few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed.
— Stanley Kunitz
Live in the layers,not on the litter. — Stanley Kunitz
In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.
— Stanley Kunitz
Whatever you choose to claim of me is always yours;
nothing is truly mine
except my name. I only
borrowed this dust. — Stanley Kunitz
The ear writes my poems, not the mind.
— Stanley Kunitz
What makes the engine go?Desire, desire, desire. — Stanley Kunitz
The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.
— Stanley Kunitz
How shall the heart be reconciled / To its feast of losses?
— Stanley Kunitz
Poetry is the enemy of the poem.
— Stanley Kunitz
End with an image and don't explain.
— Stanley Kunitz
It is my heart that's late, it is my song that's flown. — Stanley Kunitz
Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm.
— Stanley Kunitz
Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.
— Stanley Kunitz
Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.
— Stanley Kunitz
The supreme morality of art is to endure.
— Stanley Kunitz
The thing that eats the heart is mostly the heart.
— Stanley Kunitz
The unconscious creates, the ego edits.
— Stanley Kunitz
Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.
— Stanley Kunitz
When they shall paint our sockets grayAnd light us like a stinking fuse,
Remember that we once could say,
Yesterday we had a world to lose. — Stanley Kunitz
There's grammar in my bones!
— Stanley Kunitz
The heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking it is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn
— Stanley Kunitz
When, on your dangerous mission gone,You underrate our foes as dunces,
Be wary, not of sudden gun,
But of your partner at the dances. — Stanley Kunitz
An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.
— Stanley Kunitz
We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection.
— Stanley Kunitz
I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road.
— Stanley Kunitz
A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.
— Stanley Kunitz
The sand whispered, Be separate, the stones taught me, Be hard.
— Stanley Kunitz
You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.
— Stanley Kunitz
We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.
— Stanley Kunitz
I like an ending that's both a door and a window.
— Stanley Kunitz
Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.
— Stanley Kunitz
Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.
— Stanley Kunitz
My mother never forgave my father
— Stanley Kunitz
Forward my mail to Mars.
— Stanley Kunitz
A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.
— Stanley Kunitz
