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Famous Galway Kinnell Quotes

“Let our scars fall in love.”

Galway Kinnell

Variant: Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love

“Prose is walking; poetry is flying”

Galway Kinnell

“Sometimes it is necessary
To reteach a thing its loveliness”

Galway Kinnell

“… it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing…”

Galway Kinnell

“To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment”

Galway Kinnell

“The first step… shall be to lose the way.”

Galway Kinnell

Galway Kinnell Quotes

“A boy's hunched body loved out of a stalk
The first song of his happiness, and the song woke
His heart to the darkness and into the sadness of joy.”

Galway Kinnell

First Song (1983).

“The appeal to heaven breaks off.
The petals begin to fall, in self-forgiveness.
It is a flower. On this mountainside it is dying.”

Galway Kinnell

Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock (1976).

“The sheer blue milken dreaminess spurting and shuddering
from the fourteen teats into the fourteen mouths sucking and blowing beneath them:
the long, perfect loveliness of sow.”

Galway Kinnell

Saint Francis and the Sow (1986).

“I take a wolf's rib and whittle
it sharp at both ends
and coil it up
and freeze it in blubber and place it out
on the fairway of the bears.”

Galway Kinnell

The Bear (1974).

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