Kunitz The Layers Quotes & Sayings

Rose spreads its fragrance
His fragrance is his message. — Sushil Singh

What decisions would you make differently today if you knew you would most likely live to be 150? How would you think about your 50s or 60s? How would you evaluate your career arcs or investments or even the area in which you live? — Peter Diamandis

Live in the layers,
not on the litter. — Stanley Kunitz

There are about a dozen great computer graphics people and Jim Blinn is six of them. — Ivan Sutherland

Women read each other at a single glance. — Antoine Rivarol

I have to admit that I'm up to my neck in frivolity, buried in dresses to the point of ruin! Fifteen different garments! My wardrobe jam-packed! My girl, this is not the way for an old woman to behave - particularly since you never wear anything but black and white, or a little grey, so that you always look as though you were in the same dress. Why fritter away your money so absurdly? (22 August 1919) — Liane De Pougy

I have walked through many lives,
some of them my own,
and I am not who I was,
though some principle of being
abides, from which I struggle
not to stray. — Stanley Kunitz

Always a godfather, never a god. — Gore Vidal