Galway Kinnell

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

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

“Let our scars fall in love.”

“When a group of people get up from a table, the table doesn’tknow which way any of them will go.”

“Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight,when I come backwe 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.”

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