“The heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking it is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn” HeartTurnsDarkBreakDeeperLive ByHeart Break Book:The terrible threshold: selected poems, 1940-1970 Source: The terrible threshold: selected poems, 1940-1970
“In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking.” HeartBreakLive ByHeart Break Book:Conversations with Stanley Kunitz Source: Conversations with Stanley Kunitz