The Wild Braid Quotes

“The poet doesn’t so much disappear into the poem as become the poem. It is a concentration of faculties, of everything you are or hope to be, and at that moment you have a focus not only on your conscious life, but your unconscious world, and it is as much an expression of your whole being as is conceivable.”
― Stanley Kunitz, The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden

“Almost anything you do in the garden, for example weeding, is an effort to create some sort of order out of nature's tendency to run wild. There has to be a certain degree of domestication in a garden. The danger is that you can so tame your garden that it becomes a thing. It becomes landscaping.”
― Stanley Kunitz, The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden