Quotes by : Stephen Dunn

Altruism is for thosewho can't endure their desires.There's a worldas ambiguous as a moan,a pleasure....

ConnubialBecause with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic,....

I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has.

I've triedto become someone else for a while,only to discover that he, too, was me.

I'll say I love you,Which will lead, of course,to disappointment,but those words unsaidpoison every next....

Where are we going? It’s not an issue of here or there. And if you ever feel you can’t take another....

Anyone out without the excuse of a dog should be handcuffed and searched for loneliness.

All good poems are victories over something.

Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.