Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness carved out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old.


A New Selected Poems (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001) - ISBN: 9780547524498

Galway Kinnell Quotes

Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same:...

Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same:...

Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same:...

Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same:...