Happy 100th, Stanley Kunitz!
Stanley Kunitz is one of America's greatest living poets -- still living, in fact, on his one hundredth birthday today.
"In a murderous time
the heart breaks and breaks
and lives by breaking.
It is necessary to go
through dark and deeper dark
and not to turn.
I am looking for the trail.
Where is my testing-tree?
Give me back my stones!"
(from "The Testing Tree")
posted by Greg at 11:03 AM
2 Comments:
good to see you back on form...hi from edinburgh !!!wonder if stanley k was a countrry fan??I often wonder what these guys and gals listened to whilst the muse visited..
This is the first time I've ever read anything by Kunitz. Wonderful. Thanks for the post.
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