I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent … - Stanley Kunitz - Quotesmemo.com

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Stanley Kunitz

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.

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When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive presence, inevitably you think of your art, whatever it may be, as the gift you have made to the world in acknowledgment of the gift you have been given, which is the life itself. . . That work is not an expression of the desire for praise or recognition, or prizes, but the deepest manifestation of your gratitiude for the gift of life.

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Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.

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The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.

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