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✵ 1. février 1927 – 28. octobre 2014
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Galway Kinnell: 10 citations0 J'aime

Galway Kinnell: Citations en anglais

“Let our scars fall in love.”

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Galway Kinnell

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

“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”

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“… 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…”

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“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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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The Bear (1974).