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Writing Quotes by Stanley Kunitz
- Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't…
- I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began as a celebration of wild…
- I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see…
- The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.
- Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.
- End with an image and don't explain.
- ...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…
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