"To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so……" — Galway Kinnell
"To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment"
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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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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 Concealment Quotes
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Jesus was not a whisperer. No one ever saw Him close to His neighbor's ear, looking stealthily around lest some…
— Samuel Logan Brengle
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A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.
— John Burroughs
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Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.
— Charles M. Blow
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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of…
— Douglas Coupland
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As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order…
— Richard Posner
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All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the…
— Edwin M. Stanton
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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself…
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
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The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the…
— June Jordan
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own…
— Adam Weishaupt
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If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he's a…
— Jostein Gaarder
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