Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnellwas an American poet. For his 1982 Selected Poems he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright. From 1989 to 1993 he was poet laureate for the state of Vermont...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 February 1927
CountryUnited States of America
book help led memory might people
I think it might help to keep his memory vivid, ... People might be led from one book to the other.
falling-in-love self mind
Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.
earth littles speak
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
laughter kissing world
Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.
two cry versions
There are two versions to every poem – the crying version and the straight version
stars thinking broken
When I sleepwalk into your room, and pick you up, and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to me hard, as if clinging could save us. I think you think I will never die, I think I exude to you the permanence of smoke or stars, even as my broken arms heal themselves around you.
sleep hair dying
Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight, when I come back we will go out together, we will walk out together among, the ten thousand things, each scratched too late with such knowledge, the wages of dying is love.
poetry ridiculous seems understand
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous