Stanley Kunitz Quotes
Top 43 wise famous quotes and sayings by Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Kunitz Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Whatever you choose to claim
of me is always yours;
nothing is truly mine
except my name. I only
borrowed this dust.
of me is always yours;
nothing is truly mine
except my name. I only
borrowed this dust.
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.
And light us like a stinking fuse,
Remember that we once could say,
Yesterday we had a world to lose.
The heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking it is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn
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.
You underrate our foes as dunces,
Be wary, not of sudden gun,
But of your partner at the dances.
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 to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.