70 Quotes by Stanley Kunitz

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

Forward my mail to Mars.

To conquer a piece of earth and make it as beautiful as one can dream of it being: That is art, too. A man cannot be separated from the earth. I come out of the garden every day feeling, oh, inspired in a way that one needs in order to convert the daily-ness of the life into something greater than that little life itself.

My mother never forgave my father

I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road.

A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.

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

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

In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking.