"Deftly they opened the brain of a child,……" — Stanley Kunitz
"Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams."
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Stanley Kunitz
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39 Quotes by Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Kunitz has 39 quotes on this site.
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Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there…
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In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.
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To conquer a piece of earth and make it as beautiful as one can dream of it being: That is…
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I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began…
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Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect,…
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I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you…
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Some poems present themselves as cliffs that need to be climbed. Others are so defensive that when you approach their…
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The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.
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Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes…
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We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.
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A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.
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The unconscious creates, the ego edits.
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More Aviation Quotes
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Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
— Neil Armstrong
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's…
— Douglas Adams
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More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot…
— Cecil Beaton
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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
— Robert Benchley
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
— Mel Brooks
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece…
— Kalpana Chawla
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I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation.…
— Michael P. Anderson
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
— Otto Lilienthal
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My first wife didn't like to fly, either.
— Gordon Baxter
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The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a…
— Benny Hill
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
— Jonathan Swift
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
— Will Durant
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