"Poetry today is easier to write but harder…" — Stanley Kunitz

"Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember."

— 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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