"In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking."

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Source : Stanley Kunitz, Kent P. Ljungquist (2013). “Conversations with Stanley Kunitz”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Stanley Kunitz

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“I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view.”
“Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois.”
“You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.”
“The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.”
“In my 20s, my mom and I went and saw the bridges of Madison County, which are in Iowa, and I had seen that movie with Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. I've always done these Iowa road trips. I did this transcendental meditation course in Fairfield, Iowa. So I've known since my early 20s that someday I would buy a farm in Iowa.”
“The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years.”
“You're not always able to choose.”
“Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.”

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