Stanley Kunitz Quotes

In every house of marriage
there's room for an interpreter.

marriage

Art is that chalice into which we pour the wine of transcendence.

art

Poetry, I have insisted, is ultimately mythology, the telling of the stories of the soul.

poetry

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.

transformation

The poem comes in the form of a blessing—"like rapture breaking on the mind," as I tried to phrase it in my youth.  Through the years I have found this gift of poetry to be life-sustaining, life-enhancing, and absolutely unpredictable.

poetry