In every house of marriage
there's room for an interpreter.

Stanley Kunitz

More information about this quote

Topic

Marriage Relationships Communication

Author

Stanley Kunitz

Source

Route Six

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Kunitz, Stanley. "Route Six." New England Review, c. 1993.

Illustrated Quote

A quote by Stanley Kunitz about marriage: “In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.”
Download
A quote by Stanley Kunitz about marriage: “In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.”
Download
A quote by Stanley Kunitz about marriage: “In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.”
Download

Related Quotes

Below are one or more quotes that share at least one tag with the quote at the top of the page

Another quote from the 1930s

The inward gates of a bird are always open.
It does not know how to shut them.
That is the secret of its song,
But whether any man's are ajar is doubtful.

Hugh MacDiarmid

More information about this quote
Topic
Vulnerability

Author

Hugh MacDiarmid
Source
On a Raised Beach
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1934 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

MacDiarmid, Hugh. "On a Raised Beach." Stony Limits and Other Poems. Victor Gollancz, 1934.

Another quote about Marriage

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Elective Affinities

Buy Elective Affinities at Amazon Buy Elective Affinities at Amazon
Read Elective Affinities at Project Gutenberg
More information about this quote
Topic
Marriage
Speaker
Mittler

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source
Elective Affinities
Medium
Novel
Language
German
Time
1808 1800s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Die Wahlvenwandtschaften [Elective Affinities]. Tubingen: J. G. Cottaische Buchhandlung, 1809, bk. 1, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Elective Affinities, translated by David Constantine. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, ch. 9.