Galway Kinnell Quotes

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• Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love. Fall
• Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead? Dead
• I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a… Among
• Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come. Canaries
• I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now. Always Intended
• The first step in the journey is to lose your way. First Step
• I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way. Find
• Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous. Incomprehensible
• Go so deep into yourself, you speak for everyone. Deep
• The first step... shall be to lose the way. First Step
• Prose is walking; poetry is flying Flying
• To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her… Concealment
• Turn on the dream you lived through the unwavering gaze. It is as you thought: the living burn. In the floating days may you discover… Burn
• Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same:… Asks
• Let our scars fall in love. Fall
• There are two versions to every poem – the crying version and the straight version Cry
• 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 thousand… Among
• Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness Inspirational
• ...it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and… Blessing
• When I sleepwalk into your room, and pick you up, and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to me hard, as if clinging… Arms

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