"I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the…" — Stanley Kunitz

I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road. - Stanley Kunitz

"I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road."

— 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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More Dance Quotes

This quote is filed under Dance Quotes, one of 3,665 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of… — Fred Astaire
Disco is just jitterbug. — Fred Astaire
Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how… — Margaret Atwood
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. — George Balanchine
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the… — George Balanchine
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. — Dave Barry
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
The more injuries you get, the smarter you get. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

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