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We have put together a list of some of the best Quotes that Written by Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Kunitz
Total Quotes 52
My Mother Never Forgave My Father
Mother
Father
An Old Poet Ought Never To Be Caught With His Technique Showing.
Technique
Poet
Caught
It Is My Heart That's Late, It Is My Song That's Flown.
Song
Heart
My Heart
Poetry Today Is Easier To Write But Harder To Remember.
Writing
Poetry
Today
Certainly The Modern Poets I Cherish Most Are Disturbing Spirits; They Do Not Come To Coo.
Spirit
Cherish
Poet
One Critic Wrote . . . That My Poems Sounded As Though They Had Been Translated From The Hungarian. I Don't Know Why, But Somehow That Made Me Feel Quite Lighthearted.
Made
Critics
Feels
A Poet Needs To Keep His Wilderness Alive Inside Him. To Remain A Poet After Forty Requires An Awareness Of Your Darkest Africa, That Part Of Yourself That Will Never Be Tamed.
Needs
Alive
Wilderness
I Refuse To Turn To Theology To Justify The Life Or Redeem It. There Is A Question Always Of The Connection To The Eternal. I Say To Myself Above All, Keep Alive Your Conviction That There Are Sacred Elements In The Life In The Practice Of The Life That Must Be Respected. But The Conviction In The Existence Of The Sacred Does Not Necessarily Imply That You Need To Believe In A Creator, Because We Are The Ones That Made The Sacred.
Believe
Practice
Elements
A Poet Needs To Keep His Wilderness Alive Inside Him.
Needs
Alive
Wilderness
The Ear Writes My Poems, Not The Mind.
Writing
Mind
Ears
A Longing For The Dance Stirs In The Buried Life.
Longing
Buried
...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.
Writing
Bed
Ears
To Conquer A Piece Of Earth And Make It As Beautiful As One Can Dream Of It Being: That Is Art, Too. A Man Cannot Be Separated From The Earth. I Come Out Of The Garden Every Day Feeling, Oh, Inspired In A Way That One Needs In Order To Convert The Daily-ness Of The Life Into Something Greater Than That Little Life Itself.
Beautiful
Dream
Art
Rhythm To Me Is Essentially What Hopkins Called The Taste Of Self. I Taste Myself As Rhythm.
Self
Taste
Rhythm
Not That You Need To Be A Saint To Have Visions Worth Talking About. The Most Effective Prescription, I Suspect, Is To Be A Disciplined Sinner. Perfection, As Valery Noted, Is Work.
Talking
Perfection
Vision
Forward My Mail To Mars.
Mars
Mail
Darling, Do You Remember The Man You Married? Touch Me, Remind Me Who I Am.
Men
Who I Am
Married
In My Darkest Night, When The Moon Was Covered And I Roamed Through Wreckage, A Nimbus-clouded Voice Directed Me: "live In The Layers, Not On The Litter." Though I Lack The Art To Decipher It, No Doubt The Next Chapter In My Book Of Transformations Is Already Written. I Am Not Done With My Changes.
Art
Book
Moon
What Makes The Engine Go? Desire, Desire, Desire.
Football
Passion
Desire
The Supreme Morality Of Art Is To Endure.
Art
Morality
Endure
When They Shall Paint Our Sockets Gray And Light Us Like A Stinking Fuse, Remember That We Once Could Say, Yesterday We Had A World To Lose.
Light
Yesterday
World
I Dance/for The Joy Of Surviving, At The Edge Of The Road.
Joy
Survival
Surviving
Writer's Block Is A Natural Affliction. Writers Who Have Never Experienced It Have Something Wrong With Them. It Means There Isn't Enough Friction-that They Aren't Making Enough Of An Effort To Reconcile The Contradictions Of Life. All You Get Is Sweet Monotonous Flow. Writer's Block Is Nothing To Commit Suicide Over. It Simply Indicates Some Imbalance Between Your Experience And Your Art, And I Think That's Constructive.
Suicide
Sweet
Art
In Every House Of Marriage There's Room For An Interpreter.
Marriage
House
Rooms
Born: July 29, 1905
Died: May 14, 2006
Occupation: Poet
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