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Touch Me, Stanley Kunitz
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Leuchtturm a5 standard
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"What makes the engine go?
Desire, desire, desire.
The longing for the dance
stirs in the buried life.
One season only,
and its done."
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#Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.
- #StanleyKunitz
End of Summer BY STANLEY KUNITZ An agitation of the air, A perturbation of the light Admonished me the unloved year Would turn on its hinge that night. I stood in the disenchanted field Amid the stubble and the stones, Amazed, while a small worm lisped to me The song of my marrow-bones. Blue poured into summer blue, A hawk broke from his cloudless tower, The roof of the silo blazed, and I knew That part of my life was over. Already the iron door of the north Clangs open: birds, leaves, snows Order their populations forth, And a cruel wind blows.
today more of the season for #SmallPoemSunday
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Stanley Kunitz, "The System,"(ca 1971).
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#LiteraryBirthday Stanley Kunitz. Pulitzer Prize Winner, US Poet Laureate. #StanleyKunitz #KenBoyd
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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."
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✒ #StanleyKunitz, American poet and translator, was #BOTD 29 July 1905. #Poetry #Literature
In a murderous time
the heart breaks and breaks
and lives by breaking.
It is necessary to go
through dark and deeper dark
and not to turn.
- #StanleyKunitz, 'The Testing Tree' (excerpt)
Over a lifetime I've written poems only when I felt I had poems to write. I do not feel apologetic about refusing to convert myself into a machine for producing verse. Sometimes I think that poets have become a nation of monsters.
- #StanleyKunitz
The poet's first obligation is survival. No bolder challenge confronts the modern artist than to stay healthy in a sick world.
- #StanleyKunitz
"The Long Boat", Stanley Kunitz
Fanyantan Luming
Leuchtturm paper
Monteverde innova, omniflex nib
Desk gecko guest appearance
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You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.
- #StanleyKunitz
#Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.
- #StanleyKunitz
Another tribute to #poetry this time #StanleyKunitz and #MaryOliver over at #post.news where long format posts permit this kind of posting. #TheLayers
“Live in the layers,
not on the litter.“
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