"Better to be furious at one thing, become……" — Stephen Dunn
"Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers."
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22 Quotes by Stephen Dunn
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What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a…
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There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.
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And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.
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Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?
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I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And…
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exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I…
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Everything I can't see / is at least as real as what I can.
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Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.
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I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has.
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I love what's left after love has been tested.
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When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.
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Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan…
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