Quotes by Stanley Kunitz

Stanley Kunitz

…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.

Bed

Ears

Writing

A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.

Buried

Longing

A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.

Knows

Poet

Secret

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him.

Alive

Needs

Wilderness

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.

Alive

Needs

Wilderness

An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.

Caught

Poet

Technique

Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.

Dare

Giving

Style

Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.

Cherish

Poet

Spirit

Darling, do you remember the man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am.

Married

Men

Who I Am

Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.

Children

Dream

Flying

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Quotes by Stanley Kunitz

Stanley Kunitz

…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.

A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.

A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him.

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.

An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.

Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.

Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.

Darling, do you remember the man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am.

Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.

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