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Stanley Kunitz - 1905 to 2006
former U.S. Poet Laureate - Worcester Native

General info on Stanley Kunitz and two of his poems can be found at poets.org.
Local coverage of Stanley Kunitz and his life can be read at telegram.com.

In a murderous time
   the heart breaks and breaks
      and lives by breaking.

It is necessary to go
   through dark and deeper dark
      and not to turn.

I am looking for the trail.
   Where is my testing-tree?
      Give me back my stones!

- from The Testing-Tree