Stephen Dunn
5 quotes
Quotes by Stephen Dunn
"I've triedto become someone else for a while,only to discover that he, too, was me."
"I'll say I love you,Which will lead, of course,to disappointment,but those words unsaidpoison every next moment.I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has."
"ConnubialBecause with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the language of intimacy in order to conceal how I felt— I knew I was in danger of being terribly understood."
"Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive."
"All good poems are victories over something."