the heart breaks and breaks
and lives by breaking.
It is necessary to go
through dark and deeper dark
and not to turn.

from “The Testing Tree

Stanley Kunitz


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What makes the engine go?
Desire, desire, desire.

Stanley Kunitz

Tag: motivation



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In my darkest night,
when the moon was covered
and I roamed through wreckage,
a nimbus-clouded voice
directed me:
“Live in the layers,
not on the litter.”
Though I lack the art
to decipher it,
no doubt the next chapter
in my book of transformations
is already written.
I am not done with my changes.

Stanley Kunitz

Tag: life poetry change



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End with an image and don't explain.

Stanley Kunitz

Tag: writing



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I refuse to turn to theology to justify the life or redeem it. There is a question always of the connection to the eternal. I say to myself above all, keep alive your conviction that there are sacred elements in the life in the practice of the life that must be respected. But the conviction in the existence of the sacred does not necessarily imply that you need to believe in a creator, because we are the ones that made the sacred.

Stanley Kunitz


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

Stanley Kunitz

Tag: hope renewal



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...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.

Stanley Kunitz

Tag: poetry



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

Stanley Kunitz

Tag: poetry touch



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Toward dawn we shared with you
your hour of desolation,
the huge lingering passion
of your unearthly out cry,
as you swung your blind head
towards us and laboriously opened
a bloodshot, glistening eye,
in which we swam with terror and recognition.

Stanley Kunitz

Tag: pain sadness



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We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection.

Stanley Kunitz

Tag: perfection



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