"Be what you are. Give What is yours……" — Stanley Kunitz

"Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare."

— Stanley Kunitz

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39 Quotes by Stanley Kunitz

Stanley Kunitz has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there…
Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.
In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.
To conquer a piece of earth and make it as beautiful as one can dream of it being: That is…
I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began…
Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect,…
I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you…
Some poems present themselves as cliffs that need to be climbed. Others are so defensive that when you approach their…
The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.
Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes…
We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.
A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.

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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash
Dare to risk public criticism. — Mary Kay Ash
There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. — Drew Barrymore
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. — John Adams
You can only be as good as you dare to be bad. — John Barrymore
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? — Charles Baudelaire
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.… — Jean Baudrillard
I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking… — John Bonham
I'm as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes - and I will dare to say to you… — Bono
I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there… — Tony Abbott
There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of… — David Bowie
But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose. — Anne Bronte

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