I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.

- Stanley Kunitz

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

- Stanley Kunitz

The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.

- Stanley Kunitz

When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive presence, inevitably you think of your…

- Stanley Kunitz

Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are only sleepi…

- Stanley Kunitz

A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.

- Stanley Kunitz

Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.

- Stanley Kunitz

I associate the garden with the whole experience of being alive, and so, there is nothing in the range of human experience that is separate from what…

- Stanley Kunitz

We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.

- Stanley Kunitz