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Top 20 Galway Kinnell Quotes (2025 Update)

Galway Kinnell Quote: “Let our scars fall in love.”

1. “Let our scars fall in love.”

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Galway Kinnell Quote: “Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness.”

2. “Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness.”

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Galway Kinnell Quote: “The first step in the journey is to lose your way.”

3. “The first step in the journey is to lose your way.”

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Galway Kinnell Quote: “To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment.”

4. “To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment.”

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Galway Kinnell Quote: “The wages of dying are love.”

5. “The wages of dying are love.”

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Galway Kinnell Quote: “Love is the religion that bereaves the bereft.”

6. “Love is the religion that bereaves the bereft.”

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Galway Kinnell Quote: “I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.”

7. “I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.”

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Galway Kinnell Quote: “I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.”

8. “I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.”

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

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

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Galway Kinnell Quote: “Go so deep into yourself, you speak for everyone.”

10. “Go so deep into yourself, you speak for everyone.”

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Galway Kinnell Quote: “Turn on the dream you lived through the unwavering gaze. It is as you thought: the living burn. In the floating days may you discover grace.”

11. “Turn on the dream you lived through the unwavering gaze. It is as you thought: the living burn. In the floating days may you discover grace.”

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Galway Kinnell Quote: “When I sleepwalk into your room, and pick you up, and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to me hard, as if clinging could save us. I think you think I will never die, I think I exude to you the permanence of smoke or stars, even as my broken arms heal themselves around you.”

12. “When I sleepwalk into your room, and pick you up, and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to me hard, as if clinging could save us. I think you think I will never die, I think I exude to you the permanence of smoke or stars, even as my broken arms heal themselves around you.”

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Galway Kinnell Quote: “The secret title of every good poem might be ‘Tenderness.”

13. “The secret title of every good poem might be ‘Tenderness.”

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Galway Kinnell Quote: “Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.”

14. “Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.”

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Galway Kinnell Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Galway Kinnell Quote: “Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what’s to come.”

16. “Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what’s to come.”

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Galway Kinnell Quote: “Prose is walking; poetry is flying.”

17. “Prose is walking; poetry is flying.”

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Galway Kinnell Quote: “Now is when the point of the story changes.”

18. “Now is when the point of the story changes.”

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Galway Kinnell Quote: “I start off but I don’t know where I’m going; I try this avenue and that avenue, that turns out to be a dead end, this is a dead end, and so on. The search takes a long time and I have to back-track often.”

19. “I start off but I don’t know where I’m going; I try this avenue and that avenue, that turns out to be a dead end, this is a dead end, and so on. The search takes a long time and I have to back-track often.”

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Galway Kinnell Quote: “There are two versions to every poem – the crying version and the straight version.”

20. “There are two versions to every poem – the crying version and the straight version.”

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Galway Kinnell Quote: “Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?”

21. “Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?”

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Galway Kinnell Quote: “Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness carved out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old.”

22. “Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness carved out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old.”

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Galway Kinnell Quote: “Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.”

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

— Galway Kinnell

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