Quotes by Galway Kinnell

Galway Kinnell

Go so deep into yourself, you speak for everyone.

Speak

Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns–Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell– their loneliness given away in poems, only their solitude kept.

Goodbye

Loneliness

War

I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.

Forever

Live Forever

I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a penalty they earn for knowing the black art of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries fall almost unbidden to my tongue, as words sometimes do, certain peculiar words like strengths or squinched, many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps, which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well in the silent, startled, icy, black language of blackberry – eating in late September.

Art

Fall

Knowing

I start off but I don’t know where I’m going; I try this avenue and that avenue, that turns out to be a dead end, this is a dead end, and so on. The search takes a long time and I have to back-track often.

Long

Track

Trying

I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.

Special

Way

Wrong Person

Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?

Existence

Get Over

Over It

It is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing.

Blessing

Flower

Inspirational

Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.

Kissing

Laughter

World

Let our scars fall in love.

Fall

Falling In Love

Scar

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All Things

Art

Blessing

Blood

Broken

Bud

Canaries

Children

Cry

Dream

Dying

Earth

Existence

Fall

Falling In Love

Firsts

Flavor

Floating

Flower

Flying

Forever

Get Over

Glasses

Goodbye

Grace

Hair

Hands

Inspirational

Journey

Kissing

Knowing

Laughter

Littles

Live Forever

Loneliness

Long

Love Is

Loveliness

Memories

Mind

Mines

Over It

Poetry

Poetry Is

Profound

Prose

Ridiculous

Scar

Self

Sleep

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Quotes by Galway Kinnell

Galway Kinnell

Go so deep into yourself, you speak for everyone.

Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns–Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell– their loneliness given away in poems, only their solitude kept.

I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.

I start off but I don’t know where I’m going; I try this avenue and that avenue, that turns out to be a dead end, this is a dead end, and so on. The search takes a long time and I have to back-track often.

I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.

Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?

It is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing.

Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.

Let our scars fall in love.

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