"My mother never forgave my father" — Stanley Kunitz

"My mother never forgave my father"

39 Quotes by Stanley Kunitz

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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…
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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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought… — Frank Abagnale
I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house… — Billie Joe Armstrong
I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was… — Chinua Achebe
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from… — John James Audubon
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,… — Paul Auster
I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace.… — Teresa of Avila
My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants;… — Teresa of Avila
My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I… — Jensen Ackles
I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father. — Amitabh Bachchan
Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place… — Michael Badnarik

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