4 Quotes by Galway Kinnell about poetry


  • Author Galway Kinnell
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    The budstands for all things,even for those things that don’t flower,for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though sometimes it is necessaryto reteach a thing its loveliness,to put a hand on its browof the flowerand retell it in words and in touchit is lovelyuntil it flowers again from within, of self-blessing

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    When a group of people get up from a table, the table doesn’tknow which way any of them will go.

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

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