"I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.â€™ It began as a celebration of wild geese. Eventually the geese flew out of the poem, but I like to think they left behind the sound of their beating wings."

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Stanley Kunitz

#Summer Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Politicians nowadays treat Americans like medical orderlies treat Alzheimer's patients, telling them anything that will keep them subdued. It doesn't matter what untruths the people are fed because they will not long remember. But in politics, forgotten falsehoods almost guarantee new treachery.”
“If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.”
“I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.”
“You can't pack everything into every single story.”
“High school wasn't so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.”
“I had to feign interest in all this nonsense until I could ask when I could come over and sit on his face. I didn't say that out loud, of course. I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.”
“If no producer, no movie.”
“When a woman falls in love with something so much that she wants to wear it- it is at that point that it becomes fashion.”

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