Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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
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 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…
The first step... shall be to lose the way. - Galway Kinnell
The first step... shall be to lose the way.
Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love. - Galway Kinnell
Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.
Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones. - Galway Kinnell
Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.
I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way. - Galway Kinnell
I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.
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
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…
Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness - Galway Kinnell
Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness
The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don't flower - Galway Kinnell
The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don't flower
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