"Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness carved out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old."

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Source : Galway Kinnell (2001). “A New Selected Poems”, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Galway Kinnell

#Memories Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Hands Quotes

“I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.”
“Where you are is a result of who you were, but where you go depends entirely on who you choose to be.”
“And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.”
“The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.”
“You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.”
“If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.”
“I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.”
“The family is the most important wealth of a nation. May we endeavor to defend and strengthen the foundation of society.”

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