Quotes by Galway Kinnell

About Galway Kinnell:

Galway Kinnell was an American poet. For his 1982 Selected Poems he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright. From 1989 to 1993 he was poet laureate for the state of Vermont.
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When a group of people get up from a table, the table doesn’t know which way any of them will go.

Galway Kinnell

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

Galway Kinnell

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

Galway Kinnell

The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it...

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 things, each scratched too late with such knowledge, the wages of dying is love.

Galway Kinnell

Let our scars fall in love.

Galway Kinnell

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

Galway Kinnell

Author Bio

  • NameGalway Kinnell
  • DescriptionPoet
  • BornFebruary 1, 1927
  • DiedOctober 28, 2014
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet; Writer; Translator
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; MacArthur Fellows Program; Rome Prize; Pulitzer Prize For Poetry; National Book Award