Stephen Dunn Famous Quotes & Sayings
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All good poems are victories over something.

Everything I can't see / is at least as real as what I can.

Exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.

Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.

I'll always deny that I kissed her.
I was just whispering into her mouth.

Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?

Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers.

I love what's left after love has been tested.

Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.

I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has.

And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.