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Stanley Kunitz Quotes
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A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
The unconscious creates, the ego edits (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
The supreme morality of art is to endure (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
I like an ending that’s both a door and a window (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
My mother never forgave my father (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
End with an image and don’t explain (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
Darling, do you remember the man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race (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 (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive presence, inevitably you think of your art, whatever it may be, as the gift you have made to the world in acknowledgment of the gift you have been given, which is the life itself... That work is not an expression of the desire for praise or recognition, or prizes, but the deepest manifestation of your gratitiude for the gift of life (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
I refuse to turn to theology to justify the life or redeem it. There is a question always of the connection to the eternal. I say to myself above all, keep alive your conviction that there are sacred elements in the life in the practice of the life that must be respected. But the conviction in the existence of the sacred does not necessarily imply that you need to believe in a creator, because we are the ones that made the sacred (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
It is my heart that’s late, it is my song that’s flown (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our minds, waiting for our call. We have need of them, for in their sum they epitomize the wisdom and experience of the race (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)
Some poems present themselves as cliffs that need to be climbed. Others are so defensive that when you approach their enclosure you half expect to be met by a snarling dog at the gate. Still others want to smother you with their sticky charms (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 (Stanley Kunitz Quotes)