Galway Kinnell Quotes
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Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.
Fall
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Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?
Dead
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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
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Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.
Canaries
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I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.
Always Intended
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The first step in the journey is to lose your way.
First Step
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I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.
Find
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Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
Incomprehensible
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Go so deep into yourself, you speak for everyone.
Deep
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
First Step
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Prose is walking; poetry is flying
Flying
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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
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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
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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
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Let our scars fall in love.
Fall
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There are two versions to every poem – the crying version and the straight version
Cry
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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
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Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness
Inspirational
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...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
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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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