Stanley Kunitz Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. ...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.

2. Darling, do you rememberthe man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am.

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

4. In my darkest night,when the moon was coveredand I roamed through wreckage,a nimbus-clouded voicedirected me:Live in the layers,not on the litter.Though I lack the artto decipher it,no doubt the next chapterin my book of transformationsis already written.I am not done with my changes. The Collected Poems

5. The LayersI have walked through many lives,some of them my own,and I am not who I was,though some principle of beingabides, from which I strugglenot to stray.When I look behind,as I am compelled to lookbefore I can gather strengthto proceed on my journey,I see the milestones dwindlingtoward the horizonand the slow fires trailingfrom the abandoned camp-sites,over which scavenger angelswheel on heavy wings.Oh, I have made myself a tribeout of my true affections,and my tribe is scattered!How shall the heart be reconciledto its feast of losses?In a rising windthe manic dust of my friends,those who fell along the way,bitterly stings my face.Yet I turn, I turn,exulting somewhat,with my will intact to gowherever I need to go,and every stone on the roadprecious to me.In my darkest night,when the moon was coveredand I roamed through wreckage,a nimbus-clouded voicedirected me:Live in the layers,not on the litter.Though I lack the artto decipher it,no doubt the next chapterin my book of transformationsis already written.I am not done with my changes. The Collected Poems

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

7. You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.