The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the interconnectedness of all things in the universe.
Stanley Kunitz's quote highlights the idea that every action or change we make in the world has far-reaching implications, affecting the entire fabric of existence. It suggests that our lives are intricately linked, and even the smallest touch can resonate throughout the universe, underscoring our shared experiences and the importance of mindful actions.
In practice
During a speech on environmental conservation to emphasize the importance of preserving nature.
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 art, whatever it may be, as the gift you have made to the world in acknowledgment of the gift you have been given, which is the life itself... That work is not an expression of the desire for praise or recognition, or prizes, but the deepest manifestation of your gratitiude for the gift of life.
Some poems present themselves as cliffs that need to be climbed. Others are so defensive that when you approach their enclosure you half expect to be met by a snarling dog at the gate. Still others want to smother you with their sticky charms.
...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed.
Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't making enough of an effort to reconcile the contradictions of life. All you get is sweet monotonous flow. Writer's block is nothing to commit suicide over. It simply indicates some imbalance between your experience and your art, and I think that's constructive.
I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.
The heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking it is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn
Equality and prosperity shouldn't be seen as enemies of each other, but as partners. One reinforces the other.
I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
And if the City falls and one survives _x000D_ he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile _x000D_ he shall be the City
I'm in a period of growth and expansion. I'm taking long, hard looks at the world and what's happening in it, analyzing and thinking. I'm trying to become acquainted with the universe - with the part of it I occupy - and trying to settle, for myself, what my relationship with it is.
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