Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo. — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind. — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language. — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems. — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Some poems present themselves as cliffs that need to be climbed. Others are so defensive that when you approach their enclosure you… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“Mind's acres are forever green: Oh, I Shall keep perpetual summer here; I shall Refuse to let one startled swallow die, Or,… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you,… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
One critic wrote . . . that my poems sounded as though they had been translated from the Hungarian. I don't know… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“Transformations All night he ran, his body air, But that was in another year. Lately the answered shape of his laughter, The… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began as a… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“ The Layers I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day. — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
One critic wrote . . . that my poems sounded as though they had been translated from the Hungarian. I don't know why, but… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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