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List of Stanley Kunitz Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 52 inspiring quotes by Stanley Kunitz.

About Stanley Kunitz

  • Born: July 29, 1905
  • Died: May 14, 2006
  • Occupation: Poet
    • My mother never forgave my father
    Mother Father
    An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.
    Technique Poet Caught
    It is my heart that's late, it is my song that's flown.
    Song Heart My Heart
    Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.
    Writing Poetry Today
    Certainly the modern poets i cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.
    Spirit Cherish Poet
    One critic wrote . . . that my poems sounded as though they had been translated from the hungarian. i don't know why, but somehow that made me feel quite lighthearted.
    Made Critics Feels
    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.
    Needs Alive Wilderness
    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.
    Believe Practice Elements
    A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him.
    Needs Alive Wilderness
    The ear writes my poems, not the mind.
    Writing Mind Ears
    A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.
    Longing Buried
    ...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.
    Writing Bed Ears
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