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> [“He held her like a new woman and what she felt felt almost as good as love had, and each of them called it love because precision didn’t matter anymore.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-dunn/he-held-her-like-a-new-woman-and-what-she-felt-felt-almost-as-good-as/)

[Stephen Dunn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-dunn/)

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## More by Stephen Dunn

> [“He held her like a new woman and what she felt felt almost as good as love had, and each of them called it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-dunn/he-held-her-like-a-new-woman-and-what-she-felt-felt-almost-as-good-as/)

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> [I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-dunn/i-will-try-to-disappoint-you-better-than-anyone-ever-has/)

[Stephen Dunn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-dunn/)

> [If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought of my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-dunn/if-the-motive-of-writing-is-for-some-people-a-kind-of-exercise-in/)

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> [The world is always somewhat vicious. I take that as a given, but at various times in various circumstances that fact will be no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-dunn/the-world-is-always-somewhat-vicious-i-take-that-as-a-given-but-at/)

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> [A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in one of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-dunn/a-good-many-of-my-poems-over-the-years-have-alluded-to-or-taken-on/)

[Stephen Dunn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-dunn/)

> [What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C… The often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-dunn/what-feeling-feels-like-over-time-an-attempt-to-screw-up-what-feeling/)

[Stephen Dunn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-dunn/)

> [“God knows nothing we don't know. We gave him every word he ever said.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-dunn/god-knows-nothing-we-don-t-know-we-gave-him-every-word-he-ever-said/)

[Stephen Dunn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-dunn/)

> [A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-dunn/a-moment-of-something-between-acceptance-and-resignation-of-one-s/)

[Stephen Dunn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-dunn/)

> [“That time I thought I was in love and calmly said so was not much different from the time I was truly in love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-dunn/that-time-i-thought-i-was-in-love-and-calmly-said-so-was-not-much/)

[Stephen Dunn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-dunn/)

> [“I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-dunn/i-ll-say-i-love-you-which-will-lead-of-course-to-disappointment-but/)

[Stephen Dunn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-dunn/)

> [Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-dunn/perhaps-basketball-and-poetry-have-just-a-few-things-in-common-but/)

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> [There's a certain pleasure in violating the strictures of your education. The trick is, if you're going to explore ideas in a poem, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-dunn/there-s-a-certain-pleasure-in-violating-the-strictures-of-your/)

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> [“He didn’t want to be this thin man whose desires were barely covered by skin, standing absolutely still. But everytime he moved there was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-dunn/he-didn-t-want-to-be-this-thin-man-whose-desires-were-barely-covered/)

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> [Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-dunn/bring-to-me-it-said-continual-proof-you-ve-been-alive/)

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> [Connubial Because with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the language of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-dunn/connubial-because-with-alarming-accuracy-she-d-been-identifying/)

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