Quotes By Author: stanley kunitz

“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.”

“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.”

“…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.”

“You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.”

“Darling, do you rememberthe man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am.”

“I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.”