"The supreme morality of art is to endure." — Stanley Kunitz

"The supreme morality of art is to endure."

— 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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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the… — Pietro Aretino
Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them… — Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for… — Aristotle
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in… — Billie Joe Armstrong
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,… — Karen Armstrong
I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new… — Darren Aronofsky
I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your… — Arthur Ashe
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov

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