All Stephen Dunn Quotes
- 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… Attempt
- There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend. Convert
- Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers. All
- And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have. All
- Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another? Curious
- 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… Always Thought
- exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort… Animal
- Everything I can't see / is at least as real as what I can. Funny
- Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body. Alive
- I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has. Anyone
- I love what's left after love has been tested. Been
- When I stop becoming, that's when I worry. Becoming
- 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… Altruism
- Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done. Arise
- All good poems are victories over something. All
- Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive. Alive
- I’ve had it with all stingy-hearted sons of bitches. A heart is to be spent. All
- I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me. Become Someone
- 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… Becoming
- Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time. Inspirational
- I’ll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth. Always Deny
- 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 intimacy… Accuracy