Stanley Kunitz Dream Quotations

To conquer a piece of earth and make it as beautiful as one can dream of it being: That is art, too. A man cannot be separated from the earth. I come out of the garden every day feeling, oh, inspired in a way that one needs in order to convert the daily-ness of the life into something greater than that little life itself.

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.

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.

Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.