Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Jasspon Kunitzwas an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth29 July 1905
CityWorcester, MA
quiver whole universe
The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.
be-careful careful
You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.
yesterday light world
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.
longing buried
A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.
layers next-chapter
Live in the layers, not on the litter.
mars mail
Forward my mail to Mars.