Stephen Dunn Quotes
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What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C.... The often welcome…
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There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.
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Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers.
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And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.
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Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?
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I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful…
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exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort…
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Everything I can't see / is at least as real as what I can.
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Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.
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I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has.
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I love what's left after love has been tested.
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When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.
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Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think…
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Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.
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All good poems are victories over something.
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Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.
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I’ve had it with all stingy-hearted sons of bitches. A heart is to be spent.
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I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.
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I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s…
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Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.
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