"Is there a mechanism of death, that so……" — Galway Kinnell
"Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?"
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Galway Kinnell
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21 Quotes by Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell has 21 quotes on this site.
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Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.
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I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast,…
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Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.
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I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.
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The first step in the journey is to lose your way.
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I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.
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Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it…
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Go so deep into yourself, you speak for everyone.
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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Prose is walking; poetry is flying
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To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it…
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Turn on the dream you lived through the unwavering gaze. It is as you thought: the living burn. In the…
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent…
— David Attenborough
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
— Margaret Atwood
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
— Margaret Atwood
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the…
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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