"Thats the way it is with poetry: When……" — Galway Kinnell
"Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous."
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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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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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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
— Karen Armstrong
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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
— Jane Austen
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Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to…
— Blaise Pascal
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Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days,…
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause…
— Dalai Lama
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The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form…
— Winston Churchill
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The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event…
— Eckhart Tolle
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In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
— Martin Luther
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It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty…
— Joseph Conrad
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A mighty, eternal and incomprehensible force pushes us all forward. But while all are so being pushed, many linger and…
— Prentice Mulford
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