Stanley Kunitz Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• End with an image and don't explain.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Writing, Ends

• ...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

  Writing, Bed, Ears

• I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began as a celebration of wild geese. Eventually the geese flew out of the poem, but I like to think they left behind the sound of their beating wings.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Summer, Writing, Thinking

• I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Dream, Art, Writing

• The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Writing, Tasks, Firsts

• Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Writing, Poetry, Today

• The ear writes my poems, not the mind.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Writing, Mind, Ears

• Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't making enough of an effort to reconcile the contradictions of life. All you get is sweet monotonous flow. Writer's block is nothing to commit suicide over. It simply indicates some imbalance between your experience and your art, and I think that's constructive.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Suicide, Sweet, Art

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