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Galway Kinnell
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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.”
Galway Kinnell (1927–2014) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: First Song (1983).
“The appeal to heaven breaks off. The petals begin to fall, in self-forgiveness. It is a flower. On this mountainside it is dying.”
Galway Kinnell (1927–2014) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock (1976).
“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.”
Galway Kinnell (1927–2014) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Saint Francis and the Sow (1986).
“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.”
Galway Kinnell (1927–2014) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Bear (1974).