"The only sense we still respect is eyesight,……" — Galway Kinnell
"The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random, you will find something - a plastic flower, false tiles, some imitation something - something which can be appreciated as material only if apprehended by eyesight alone. Don't we go sightseeing in cars, thinking we can experience a landscape by looking at it through glass?"
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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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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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