I haven’t read Stanley Kunitz before, only few months back after he expired. And I have become huge admirer of his poems I happen to read from the Net and downloaded to my computer. I liked these lines he said in an interview:
"Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our minds, waiting for our call. We have need of them, for in their sum they epitomize the wisdom and experience of the race."
These lines from his poem “The Long Boat” as a remembrance….
Peace! Peace!
To be rocked by the Infinite!
As if it didn't matter
which way was home;
as if he didn't know
he loved the earth so much
he wanted to stay forever.
