Privileges of age are, I think that one has earned a certain degree of independence that one can do what one pleases. Even with one's work. And one isn't likely to be challenged in the way you are in your youth when you first publish your poems and get a response that is usually called diffidence.
Personal Life
Age
00:34:43
You suffered from diffidence at one point. You outlived diffidence.
Interview with Stanley Kunitz, April 24, 2002
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00:33:45 - 00:33:47
Well, that's the privileges of age.
Mel Gussow
Transcript
Age
00:33:47 - 00:33:54
I think so. One of the few I ask.
Stanley Kunitz
Transcript
Age
00:33:54 - 00:34:00
No other privileges of age?
Mel Gussow
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Age
00:34:00 - 00:34:43
Privileges of age are, I think that one has earned a certain degree of independence that one can do what one pleases. Even with one's work. And one isn't likely to be challenged in the way you are in your youth when you first publish your poems and get a response that is usually called diffidence.
Stanley Kunitz
Transcript
Age
Creative Process
Laughter
00:34:43 - 00:34:51
You suffered from diffidence at one point. You outlived diffidence.