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1. "I have walked through many lives,some of them my own,and I am not who I was,though some principle of beingabides, from which I strugglenot to stray." ~ Stanley Kunitz
2. "Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died.They are only sleeping at the bottom of your mind,waiting for our call. We have need for them.They represent the wisdom of our race." ~ Stanley Kunitz
3. "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
4. "TransformationsAll night he ran, his body air, But that was in another year. Lately the answered shape of his laughter, The shape of his smallest word, is fire. He who is a fierce young crier Of poems will be as tranquil as water, Keeping, in sunset glow, the pure Image of limitless desire; Then enter earth and come to be, Inch by inch, geography." ~ Stanley Kunitz
5. "Mind's acres are forever green: Oh, IShall keep perpetual summer here; I shallRefuse to let one startled swallow die,Or, from the copper beeches, one leaf fall." ~ Stanley Kunitz
6. "I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.' 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
7. "You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin." ~ Stanley Kunitz
8. "Toward dawn we shared with youyour hour of desolation,the huge lingering passionof your unearthly out cry,as you swung your blind headtowards us and laboriously openeda bloodshot, glistening eye,in which we swam with terror and recognition." ~ Stanley Kunitz
9. "In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking." ~ Stanley Kunitz
10. "The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers." ~ Stanley Kunitz
11. "The heart breaks and breaks and lives by breakingit is necessary to go throughdark and deeper darkand not to turn" ~ Stanley Kunitz
12. "End with an image and don't explain." ~ Stanley Kunitz
13. "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" ~ Stanley Kunitz
14. "Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare." ~ Stanley Kunitz
15. "What makes the engine go?Desire, desire, desire." ~ Stanley Kunitz
16. "Darling, do you rememberthe man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am." ~ Stanley Kunitz
17. "When they shall paint our sockets grayAnd light us like a stinking fuse,Remember that we once could say,Yesterday we had a world to lose." ~ Stanley Kunitz
18. "Forward my mail to Mars." ~ Stanley Kunitz
19. "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." ~ Stanley Kunitz
20. "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
21. "...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
22. "There's grammar in my bones!" ~ Stanley Kunitz
23. "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
24. "When, on your dangerous mission gone,You underrate our foes as dunces,Be wary, not of sudden gun,But of your partner at the dances." ~ Stanley Kunitz
25. "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

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Oh, how people love to disappear from your life. Especially when you already got attached to them."
Author: Anton Chekhov

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