Canaries Quote by Galway Kinnell Download Open image “Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.” — Galway Kinnell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Canaries Come Inspirational Love Mines Poetry Poetry Canary Shaft Warning Warning Warning Come
“There are a handful of poems, which perhaps might need their own warning for the people who are frightened, disturbed, or terminally puzzled by… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Poetry can be a peculiar gateway, Will. It can be a way into all kinds of things that don’t seem to have a way… — Will Willingham Copy Share Image
If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
For the poets, my hope is that they will, quite simply, feel the obligation to be really informed about the situation in which we… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“A poem is a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.” — James Stephens Copy Share Image
This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being questioned and… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Turn on the dream you lived through the unwavering gaze. It is as you thought: the living burn. In the floating days may you… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead? — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
I start off but I don't know where I'm going; I try this avenue and that avenue, that turns out to be a dead… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
“The Correspondence-School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students Goodbye, lady in Bangor, who sent me snapshots of yourself, after definitely hinting you were… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
the rest of my days I spend wandering: wondering what, anyway, was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly,… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
“Bending over her bed, I saw the smile I must have seen when gaping up from the crib. Knowing death will come, sensing its… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
“When the man touches through to the exact center of the woman, he lies motionless, in equilibrium, in absolute desire, at the threshold of… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
“This happened to your father and to you, Galway-sick to stay, longing to come up against the ends of the earth, and climb over.” — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
“Wait Wait, for now. Distrust everything, if you have to. But trust the hours. Haven't they carried you everywhere, up to now? Personal events… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
“In a world where no creatures are truly isolated and diseases spread around as fast as jets can fly, we are all canaries and… — Barbara Natterson-Horowitz Copy Share Image
You could say sorry," suggested Harry bluntly. "What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?" muttered Ron. "What did you have to imitate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We compared notes.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The image that I remember most of all is of the Fenerbahçe players storming into the stadium before kickoff. They were called the canaries… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The smell of that buttered toast simply spoke to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
A tom cat hijacked a plane, stuck a pistol into the pilot's ribs and demanded: 'Take me to the canaries'. — Bob Monkhouse Copy Share Image
Right and responsibility go hand in hand. You can't give rights to those who are not responsible. If you want to let your canary… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
