Galway Kinnell Quotes

1927–2014 United States

Galway Kinnell (born February 1, 1927, in Providence, Rhode Island – October 28, 2014) is one of the most influential American poets of the latter half of the 20th century.

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Also known as: Kinnell, Galway

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A boy's hunched body loved out of a stalk
The first song of his happiness, and the song woke
His heart to the darkness and into the sadness of joy.

I take a wolf's rib and whittle
it sharp at both ends
and coil it up
and freeze it in blubber and place it out
on the fairway of the bears.

The Bear (1974)

The sheer blue milken dreaminess spurting and shuddering
from the fourteen teats into the fourteen mouths sucking and blowing beneath them:
the long, perfect loveliness of sow.

Saint Francis and the Sow (1986)

The appeal to heaven breaks off.
The petals begin to fall, in self-forgiveness.
It is a flower. On this mountainside it is dying.

Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock (1976)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Galway Kinnell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.