"Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare."

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Source : Stanley Kunitz (1974). “The terrible threshold: selected poems, 1940-1970”, Harvill Secker

Stanley Kunitz

#Giving Quotes #Style Quotes #Dare Quotes

“One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.”
“We speak much of the duty of making others happy. No day should pass, we say, on which we do not put a little cheer into some discouraged heart, make the path a little smoother for someoneâ€™s tired feet, or help some fainting robin unto its nest again. This is right. We cannot put too great emphasis upon the duty of giving happiness and cheer to others. But it is no less a duty that we should be happy and cheerful ourselves.”
“Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.”
“Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.”
“You turn the handle the way it goes, not the way it ought to go”
“[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.”
“Sympathy is a sweet thing.”
“The game of cricket existed long before I was born. It will be played centuries after my demise. During my career I was privileged to give the public my interpretation of its character in the same way that a pianist might interpret the works of Beethoven.”

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