“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.” ThinkingWorldLooksMayHas BeensArtMadeDesireGivenExpressionPraiseLifetimeRecognitionManifestationPrizeAcknowledgmentFugitiveYour PresenceGifts Of Life Author:Stanley Kunitz
“When they shall paint our sockets gray And light us like a stinking fuse, Remember that we once could say, Yesterday we had a world to lose.” WorldLightRememberLosesPaintYesterdayGrayFuse Book:The terrible threshold: selected poems, 1940-1970 Source: The terrible threshold: selected poems, 1940-1970
“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.” WorldWantWritingLooksArtDreamNaturalSparesTransparentLuminous Author:Stanley Kunitz
