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> [Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-kunitz/poetry-today-is-easier-to-write-but-harder-to-remember/)

[Stanley Kunitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-kunitz/)

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## More by Stanley Kunitz

> [The supreme morality of art is to endure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-kunitz/the-supreme-morality-of-art-is-to-endure/)

[Stanley Kunitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-kunitz/mind-s-acres-are-forever-green-oh-i-shall-keep-perpetual-summer-here/)

[Stanley Kunitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-kunitz/)

> [Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-kunitz/be-what-you-are-give-what-is-yours-to-give-have-style-dare/)

[Stanley Kunitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-kunitz/not-that-you-need-to-be-a-saint-to-have-visions-worth-talking-about/)

[Stanley Kunitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-kunitz/)

> [I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-kunitz/i-can-hardly-wait-for-tomorrow-it-means-a-new-life-for-me-each-and/)

[Stanley Kunitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-kunitz/)

> [The unconscious creates, the ego edits.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-kunitz/the-unconscious-creates-the-ego-edits/)

[Stanley Kunitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-kunitz/)

> [I like an ending that's both a door and a window.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-kunitz/i-like-an-ending-that-s-both-a-door-and-a-window/)

[Stanley Kunitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-kunitz/)

> [One critic wrote . . . that my poems sounded as though they had been translated from the Hungarian. I don't know why, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-kunitz/one-critic-wrote-that-my-poems-sounded-as-though-they-had-been/)

[Stanley Kunitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-kunitz/)

> [In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-kunitz/in-every-house-of-marriage-there-s-room-for-an-interpreter/)

[Stanley Kunitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-kunitz/the-heart-breaks-and-breaks-and-lives-by-breaking-it-is-necessary-to/)

[Stanley Kunitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-kunitz/)

> [A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-kunitz/a-longing-for-the-dance-stirs-in-the-buried-life/)

[Stanley Kunitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-kunitz/)

> [Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-kunitz/poetry-is-language-surprised-in-the-act-of-changing-into-meaning/)

[Stanley Kunitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-kunitz/)

> [Poetry is the enemy of the poem.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-kunitz/poetry-is-the-enemy-of-the-poem/)

[Stanley Kunitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-kunitz/)

> [I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-kunitz/i-dance-for-the-joy-of-surviving-at-the-edge-of-the-road/)

[Stanley Kunitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-kunitz/)

> [We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-kunitz/we-have-to-learn-how-to-live-with-our-frailties-the-best-people-i/)

[Stanley Kunitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-kunitz/)

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