"The unconscious creates, the ego edits." — Stanley Kunitz
"The unconscious creates, the ego edits."
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Stanley Kunitz
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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…
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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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Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an…
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A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous…
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I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work…
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The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates…
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Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
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Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
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All oppression creates a state of war.
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One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger.
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