Hardly Wait Quotes by Stanley Kunitz

The supreme morality of art is to endure.

— Stanley Kunitz

“Mind's acres are forever green: Oh, I Shall keep perpetual summer here; I shall Refuse to let one startled swallow die, Or, from the…

— Stanley Kunitz

Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.

— Stanley Kunitz

Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a…

— Stanley Kunitz

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

— Stanley Kunitz

The unconscious creates, the ego edits.

— Stanley Kunitz

I like an ending that's both a door and a window.

— Stanley Kunitz

One critic wrote . . . that my poems sounded as though they had been translated from the Hungarian. I don't know why, but…

— Stanley Kunitz

In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.

— Stanley Kunitz

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

A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.

— Stanley Kunitz

Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.

— Stanley Kunitz