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Galway Kinnell Quotes

Galway Kinnell quotes

American Poet February 1, 1927

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Galway Kinnell quote: "Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in..."
Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love. Galway Kinnell
Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness carved out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old. Galway Kinnell
Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight, when I come backwe will go out together, we will walk out together among, the ten thousand things, each scratched too late with such knowledge, the wages of dying is love. Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell quote: "Let our scars fall in love."
Let our scars fall in love. Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell quote: "The wages of dying are love."
The wages of dying are love. Galway Kinnell
When I sleepwalkinto your room, and pick you up, and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to mehard, as if clinging could save us. I thinkyou think. I will never die, I think I exudeto you the permanence of smoke or stars, even asmy broken arms heal themselves around you. Galway Kinnell
... it is necessary to reteach a thing its lovliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch that it is lovelyuntil it flowers again from within, of self-blessing...-Galway Kinnell Galway Kinnell
...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... Galway Kinnell
Turn on the dream you livedthrough the unwavering gaze. It is as you thought: the living burn. In the floating days may you discover grace. Galway Kinnell
You liveunder the Signof the Bear, who flounders through chaosin his starry blubber: poor fool, poor forked branchof applewood, you will feel all your bones breakover the holy waters you will never drink. Galway Kinnell
This happened to your father and to you, Galway-sick to stay, longingto come up against the ends of the earth, and climb over. Galway Kinnell
To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell quote: "Prose is walking; poetry is flying"
Prose is walking; poetry is flying Galway Kinnell
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous. Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell quote: "Sometimes it is necessary. To reteach a thing its loveliness"
Sometimes it is necessary. To reteach a thing its loveliness Galway Kinnell

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