"We have to learn how to live with……" — Stanley Kunitz
"We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed."
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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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A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.
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The unconscious creates, the ego edits.
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