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Maxine Kumin Quotes

Meanwhile let us cast one shadow in air and water Picture Quote #1

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old Picture Quote #1

Cherish your wilderness Picture Quote #1

Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going Picture Quote #1

It is important to act as if bearing witness matters Picture Quote #1

There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in Manhattan Picture Quote #1

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The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very gut honest about feelings Picture Quote #1

The thing that’s depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don’t know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they’ve never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don’t know the difference between ‘lie’ and ‘lay,’ let alone ‘its’ and ‘it’s.’ And they’re in graduate school! Picture Quote #1

That’s my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn’t do anything similar to what you do Picture Quote #1

If I’m working on a poem, it’s at the forefront of my mind; I’m working on it when I’m cooking dinner or stretched out on the sofa. But if I don’t really have it by the 10th draft, I know it just isn’t going to jell Picture Quote #1

I’m going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach Picture Quote #1

I took the lake between my legs Picture Quote #1

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Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems Picture Quote #1

God serves the choosy. They know what to want Picture Quote #1

To build is to dwell Picture Quote #1

The time on either side of now stands fast Picture Quote #1

Nature is a catchment of sorrows Picture Quote #1

Love, we are a small pond Picture Quote #1

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Poetrymakes nothing happen.It survivesin the valley of its saying Picture Quote #1

Everything pays for growing tame Picture Quote #1

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story Picture Quote #1

My writing time needs to surround itself with empty stretches, or at least unpeopled ones, for the writing takes place in an area of suspension as in a hanging nest that is almost entirely encapsulated Picture Quote #1

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth Picture Quote #1

With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world Picture Quote #1

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I didn’t write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them Picture Quote #1

Here on the drawing board fingers and noses leak from the air brush maggots lie under if I should die before if I should die in the back room stacked up in smooth boxes like soapflakes or tunafish wait the undreamt of Picture Quote #1

And the pond’s stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life Picture Quote #1

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Meanwhile let us cast one shadow in air and water (Maxine Kumin Quotes) When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old (Maxine Kumin Quotes) Cherish your wilderness (Maxine Kumin Quotes) Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going (Maxine Kumin Quotes) It is important to act as if bearing witness matters (Maxine Kumin Quotes) There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in Manhattan. (Maxine Kumin Quotes) The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very gut honest about feelings. (Maxine Kumin Quotes) The thing that’s depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don’t know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they’ve never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don’t know the difference between ‘lie’ and ‘lay,’ let alone ‘its’ and ‘it’s.’ And they’re in graduate school! (Maxine Kumin Quotes) That’s my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn’t do anything similar to what you do. (Maxine Kumin Quotes) If I’m working on a poem, it’s at the forefront of my mind; I’m working on it when I’m cooking dinner or stretched out on the sofa. But if I don’t really have it by the 10th draft, I know it just isn’t going to jell. (Maxine Kumin Quotes) I’m going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach (Maxine Kumin Quotes) I took the lake between my legs (Maxine Kumin Quotes) Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems (Maxine Kumin Quotes) God serves the choosy. They know what to want (Maxine Kumin Quotes) To build is to dwell (Maxine Kumin Quotes) The time on either side of now stands fast (Maxine Kumin Quotes) Nature is a catchment of sorrows (Maxine Kumin Quotes) Love, we are a small pond (Maxine Kumin Quotes) Poetrymakes nothing happen.It survivesin the valley of its saying (Maxine Kumin Quotes) Everything pays for growing tame (Maxine Kumin Quotes) We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story (Maxine Kumin Quotes) My writing time needs to surround itself with empty stretches, or at least unpeopled ones, for the writing takes place in an area of suspension as in a hanging nest that is almost entirely encapsulated (Maxine Kumin Quotes) One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth (Maxine Kumin Quotes) With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world (Maxine Kumin Quotes) I didn’t write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them (Maxine Kumin Quotes) Here on the drawing board fingers and noses leak from the air brush maggots lie under if I should die before if I should die in the back room stacked up in smooth boxes like soapflakes or tunafish wait the undreamt of (Maxine Kumin Quotes) And the pond’s stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life (Maxine Kumin Quotes)