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.
flower blessing self
...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...
falling-in-love self mind
Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.
sometimes loveliness
Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness
special way wrong-person
I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.
dream grace may
Turn on the dream you lived through the unwavering gaze. It is as you thought: the living burn. In the floating days may you discover grace.
speak
Go so deep into yourself, you speak for everyone.
warning canaries mines
Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.
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
falling-in-love fall scar
Let our scars fall in love.
flying poetry-is prose
Prose is walking; poetry is flying
forever live-forever
I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.
laughter kissing world
Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.
flower bud all-things
The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don't flower