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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
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Stanley Kunitz
Age: 100 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 29
Died: 2006
Died: May 14
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Worcester
Massachusetts
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz
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Poetry is the enemy of the poem.
Stanley Kunitz
Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our minds, waiting for our call. We have need of them, for in their sum they epitomize the wisdom and experience of the race.
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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.
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I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road.
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Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.
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A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.
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Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.
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The ear writes my poems, not the mind.
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It is my heart that's late, it is my song that's flown.
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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.
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I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.
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How shall the heart be reconciled / To its feast of losses?
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We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.
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Darling, do you remember the man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am.
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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.
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Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits they do not come to coo.
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The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.
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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.
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Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.
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A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.
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