"I like an ending that's both a door…" — Stanley Kunitz
"I like an ending that's both a door and a window."
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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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Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.
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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 most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the…
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the…
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is…
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When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly…
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That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world,…
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Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both…
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You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're…
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The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual…
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Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on…
— Margaret Atwood
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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