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

~ Stanley Kunitz

Stanley Kunitz Hope Renewal

In my darkest night,when the moon was coveredand I roamed through wreckage,a nimbus-clouded voicedirected me:“Live in the layers,not on the litter.”Though I lack the artto decipher it,no doubt the next chapterin my book of transformationsis already written.I am not done with my changes.

~ Stanley Kunitz

Stanley Kunitz Change Life Poetry

Darling, do you rememberthe man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am.

~ Stanley Kunitz

Stanley Kunitz Poetry Touch

End with an image and don't explain.

~ Stanley Kunitz

Stanley Kunitz Writing

Toward dawn we shared with youyour hour of desolation,the huge lingering passionof your unearthly out cry,as you swung your blind headtowards us and laboriously openeda bloodshot, glistening eye,in which we swam with terror and recognition.

~ Stanley Kunitz

Stanley Kunitz Pain Sadness

We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection.

~ Stanley Kunitz

Stanley Kunitz Perfection