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Stanley Kunitz quotes: I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day. I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Live in the layers, not on the litter. Live in the layers,
not on the litter.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter. In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: Whatever you choose to claim of me is always yours;nothing is truly mineexcept my name. I onlyborrowed this dust. Whatever you choose to claim
of me is always yours;
nothing is truly mine
except my name. I only
borrowed this dust.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: The ear writes my poems, not the mind. The ear writes my poems, not the mind.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: What makes the engine go?Desire, desire, desire. What makes the engine go?
Desire, desire, desire.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language. The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: How shall the heart be reconciled / To its feast of losses? How shall the heart be reconciled / To its feast of losses?
Stanley Kunitz quotes: In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking. In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: Poetry is the enemy of the poem. Poetry is the enemy of the poem.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: End with an image and don't explain. End with an image and don't explain.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: It is my heart that's late, it is my song that's flown. It is my heart that's late,
it is my song that's flown.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm. Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind. The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems. The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare. Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: Memory is each man's poet-in-residence. Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: The supreme morality of art is to endure. The supreme morality of art is to endure.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: The thing that eats the heart is mostly the heart. The thing that eats the heart is mostly the heart.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: The unconscious creates, the ego edits. The unconscious creates, the ego edits.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning. Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: 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. When they shall paint our sockets gray
And light us like a stinking fuse,
Remember that we once could say,
Yesterday we had a world to lose.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: There's grammar in my bones! There's grammar in my bones!
Stanley Kunitz quotes: The heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking it is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams. Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing. An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road. I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life. A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: The sand whispered, Be separate, the stones taught me, Be hard. The sand whispered, Be separate, the stones taught me, Be hard.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin. You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed. We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: Darling, do you rememberthe man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am. Darling,
do you remember
the man you married?
Touch me,
remind me who I am.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: I like an ending that's both a door and a window. I like an ending that's both a door and a window.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo. Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember. Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: My mother never forgave my father My mother never forgave my father
Stanley Kunitz quotes: Forward my mail to Mars. Forward my mail to Mars.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of. A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers. The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.
Stanley Kunitz quotes: I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world. I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.

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