Stanley Kunitz

Quotes by Stanley Kunitz

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Poet · American · 1905–2006

American poet (1905–2006)

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“End with an image and don't explain.”

“What makes the engine go?Desire, desire, desire.”

“You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.”

“Darling, do you rememberthe man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am.”

“I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.”

“...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.”

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“Toward dawn we shared with youyour hour of desolation,the huge lingering passionof your unearthly out cry,as you swung your blind headtowards us and laboriously openeda bloodshot, glistening eye,in...”
— Stanley Kunitz
pain sadness

“What makes the engine go?Desire, desire, desire.”
— Stanley Kunitz
motivation

“I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.”
— Stanley Kunitz
hope renewal

“In my darkest night,when the moon was coveredand I roamed through wreckage,a nimbus-clouded voicedirected me:Live in the layers,not on the litter.Though I lack the artto decipher it,no doubt the ne...”
— Stanley Kunitz
change life poetry

“Darling, do you rememberthe man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am.”
— Stanley Kunitz
poetry touch

“You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.”
— Stanley Kunitz
poetry

“...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
poetry

“Mind's acres are forever green: Oh, IShall keep perpetual summer here; I shallRefuse to let one startled swallow die,Or, from the copper beeches, one leaf fall.”
— Stanley Kunitz
poetry

“End with an image and don't explain.”
— Stanley Kunitz
writing

“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
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