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“...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.”
-- Stanley Kunitz

#Writing #Ears #Pages
“In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking.”
-- Stanley Kunitz

#Heart #Heart Break #Break
“Darling, do you remember the man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am.”
-- Stanley Kunitz

#Men #Who I Am #Remember
“We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection.”
-- Stanley Kunitz

#Dream #Garden #Perfection
“Forward my mail to Mars.”
-- Stanley Kunitz

#Mars #Mail
“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.”
-- Stanley Kunitz

#Needs #Alive #Awareness
“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.”
-- Stanley Kunitz

#Suicide #Sweet #Art
“In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.”
-- Stanley Kunitz

#Marriage #House #Rooms
“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.”
-- Stanley Kunitz

#Beautiful #Dream #Art
“I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.â€™ It began as a celebration of wild geese. Eventually the geese flew out of the poem, but I like to think they left behind the sound of their beating wings.”
-- Stanley Kunitz

#Summer #Writing #Thinking
“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.”
-- Stanley Kunitz

#Talking #Perfection #Vision
“I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray.”
-- Stanley Kunitz

#Struggle #Principles
“I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.”
-- Stanley Kunitz

#Dream #Art #Writing
“Some poems present themselves as cliffs that need to be climbed. Others are so defensive that when you approach their enclosure you half expect to be met by a snarling dog at the gate. Still others want to smother you with their sticky charms.”
-- Stanley Kunitz

#Dog #Needs #Half
“The heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking it is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn”
-- Stanley Kunitz

#Heart #Dark #Break

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