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Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.
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 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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Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.
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Darling, do you remember the man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am.
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Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.
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The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.
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Forward my mail to Mars.
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Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.
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The ear writes my poems, not the mind.
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Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm.
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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.
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I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road.
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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.
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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.
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Poetry is the enemy of the poem.
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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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My mother never forgave my father
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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.
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It is my heart that's late, it is my song that's flown.
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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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An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.
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