51 Quotes by Galway Kinnell

Now is when the point of the story changes.

I did care...I did say everything I thought In the mildest words I knew. Andnow,...I have to say I'm relieved it is over:At the end I could feel only pityFor that urge toward more life....Goodbye

Computers can deliver nuclear explosions to precisely anywhere on earth.A lightning bolt is made entirely of error.

Isn't it worth missing whatever joy / you might have dreamed, to wake in the night and find / you and your beloved are holding hands in your sleep?

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

The first step... shall be to lose the way.

I think it might help to keep his memory vivid, ... People might be led from one book to the other.

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