Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight, when I come back we will go out together, we will walk out together among, the ten thousand thin…

- Galway Kinnell

The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random, you will…

- Galway Kinnell

The first step... shall be to lose the way.

- Galway Kinnell

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

- Galway Kinnell

Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.

- Galway Kinnell

I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.

- Galway Kinnell

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: th…

- Galway Kinnell

Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness

- Galway Kinnell

The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don't flower

- Galway Kinnell