Stanley Kunitz
11 quotes
Biography
"I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day."
"End with an image and don't explain."
"In my darkest night,when the moon was coveredand I roamed through wreckage,a nimbus-clouded voicedirected me:“Live in the layers,not on the litter.”Though I lack the artto decipher it,no doubt the next chapterin my book of transformationsis already written.I am not done with my changes."
"In the best painting as in authentic poetry one is aware of moral pressures exerted... choices are important, moral pressure exists to make right and wrong choices."
"Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race."
"Darling, do you rememberthe man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am."
"You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin."
"...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed."
"Mind's acres are forever green: Oh, IShall keep perpetual summer here; I shallRefuse to let one startled swallow die,Or, from the copper beeches, one leaf fall."
"What makes the engine go?Desire, desire, desire."
"Toward dawn we shared with youyour hour of desolation,the huge lingering passionof your unearthly out cry,as you swung your blind headtowards us and laboriously openeda bloodshot, glistening eye,in which we swam with terror and recognition."