All Stanley Kunitz Quotes
- End with an image and don't explain. End
- I refuse to turn to theology to justify the life or redeem it. There is a question always of the connection to the eternal. I… Alive
- I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day. Day
- Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare. Dare
- ...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold… Bed
- In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking. Break
- Darling, do you remember the man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am. Darling
- We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of… All
- You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin. Careful
- When they shall paint our sockets gray And light us like a stinking fuse, Remember that we once could say, Yesterday we had a world… Fuse
- Forward my mail to Mars. Forward
- The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers. Any
- A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part… Africa
- Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have… Bottom