The very heart of the American enterprise has been taken up by the material and by power, ... It's not the kind of country where you'd expect to see poetry flower.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.Galway Kinnell
The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don't flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing though sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on the 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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Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.
Galway Kinnell
I think it might help to keep his memory vivid, ... People might be led from one book to the other.
Galway Kinnell
The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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