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> [The first step in the journey is to lose your way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galway-kinnell/the-first-step-in-the-journey-is-to-lose-your-way/)

[Galway Kinnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galway-kinnell/)

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## More by Galway Kinnell

> [Turn on the dream you lived through the unwavering gaze. It is as you thought: the living burn. In the floating days may you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galway-kinnell/turn-on-the-dream-you-lived-through-the-unwavering-gaze-it-is-as-you/)

[Galway Kinnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galway-kinnell/)

> [“The wages of dying are love.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galway-kinnell/the-wages-of-dying-are-love/)

[Galway Kinnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galway-kinnell/)

> [Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galway-kinnell/is-there-a-mechanism-of-death-that-so-mutilates-existence-no-one-gets/)

[Galway Kinnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galway-kinnell/)

> [I start off but I don't know where I'm going; I try this avenue and that avenue, that turns out to be a dead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galway-kinnell/i-start-off-but-i-don-t-know-where-i-m-going-i-try-this-avenue-and/)

[Galway Kinnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galway-kinnell/)

> [“The Correspondence-School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students Goodbye, lady in Bangor, who sent me snapshots of yourself, after definitely hinting you were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galway-kinnell/the-correspondence-school-instructor-says-goodbye-to-his-poetry/)

[Galway Kinnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galway-kinnell/)

> [the rest of my days I spend wandering: wondering what, anyway, was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galway-kinnell/the-rest-of-my-days-i-spend-wandering-wondering-what-anyway-was-that/)

[Galway Kinnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galway-kinnell/)

> [I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galway-kinnell/i-love-to-go-out-in-late-september-among-the-fat-overripe-icy-black/)

[Galway Kinnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galway-kinnell/)

> [“Bending over her bed, I saw the smile I must have seen when gaping up from the crib. Knowing death will come, sensing its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galway-kinnell/bending-over-her-bed-i-saw-the-smile-i-must-have-seen-when-gaping-up/)

[Galway Kinnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galway-kinnell/)

> [“When the man touches through to the exact center of the woman, he lies motionless, in equilibrium, in absolute desire, at the threshold of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galway-kinnell/when-the-man-touches-through-to-the-exact-center-of-the-woman-he-lies/)

[Galway Kinnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galway-kinnell/)

> [“This happened to your father and to you, Galway-sick to stay, longing to come up against the ends of the earth, and climb over.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galway-kinnell/this-happened-to-your-father-and-to-you-galway-sick-to-stay-longing/)

[Galway Kinnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galway-kinnell/)

> [“Wait Wait, for now. Distrust everything, if you have to. But trust the hours. Haven't they carried you everywhere, up to now? Personal events…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galway-kinnell/wait-wait-for-now-distrust-everything-if-you-have-to-but-trust-the/)

[Galway Kinnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galway-kinnell/)

> [Prose is walking; poetry is flying](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galway-kinnell/prose-is-walking-poetry-is-flying/)

[Galway Kinnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galway-kinnell/)

> [Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galway-kinnell/never-mind-the-self-is-the-least-of-it-let-our-scars-fall-in-love/)

[Galway Kinnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galway-kinnell/)

> [That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galway-kinnell/that-s-the-way-it-is-with-poetry-when-it-is-incomprehensible-it-seems/)

[Galway Kinnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galway-kinnell/)

> [Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight, when I come back we will go out together, we will walk out together among, the ten…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galway-kinnell/little-sleep-s-head-sprouting-hair-in-the-moonlight-when-i-come-back/)

[Galway Kinnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galway-kinnell/)

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