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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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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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...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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Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.
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End with an image and don't explain.
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It is my heart that's late, it is my song that's flown.
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An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.
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Darling, do you remember the man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am.
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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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The supreme morality of art is to endure.
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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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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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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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I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road.
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Live in the layers, not on the litter.
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A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.
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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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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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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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My mother never forgave my father
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A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.
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