"Prose is walking; poetry is flying" — Galway Kinnell
"Prose is walking; poetry is flying"
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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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Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?
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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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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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More Flying Quotes
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Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
— Neil Armstrong
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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely…
— Neil Armstrong
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Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
— Neil Armstrong
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I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.
— Andrea Arnold
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Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on…
— Mary Kay Ash
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Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're…
— Margaret Atwood
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We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to…
— Douglas Bader
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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
— Douglas Adams
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I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.
— Sara Blakely
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
— Erma Bombeck
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I never minded flying cheap. I always said to myself, 'Taking this flight saves enough money to rescue four dogs,…
— Elayne Boosler
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When I played the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve, I got to bring Wiley, my 85-pound…
— Elayne Boosler
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