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Inspirational Quotes by Stanley Kunitz
- We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.
- A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.
- The unconscious creates, the ego edits.
- My mother never forgave my father
- Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm.
- I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road.
- I like an ending that's both a door and a window.
- Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.
- What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
- End with an image and don't explain.
- Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.
- You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.
- Forward my mail to Mars.
- The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento