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People get confidential at midnight. -- Maxine Kumin
Poetry
makes nothing happen.
It survives
in the valley of its saying. -- Maxine Kumin
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
Can it be I am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentuchy, looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A & P? -- Maxine Kumin
That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do. -- Maxine Kumin
I was a very, I think, lonely kid, very introspective. I felt very much at odds with my environment and my culture ... Probably a genetic flaw. I can't really explain it. -- Maxine Kumin
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
To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. 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
Cherish your wilderness. -- Maxine Kumin
I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere, and sometimes the Muse is just on sabbatical. -- Maxine Kumin
I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach. -- Maxine Kumin
It is important to act as if bearing witness matters. -- Maxine Kumin
Meanwhile let us cast one shadow in air and water. -- Maxine Kumin
And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life. -- Maxine Kumin
A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words. -- Maxine Kumin
I don't think I've ever felt terribly comfortable writing about my body. First of all, I think I took my body for granted for so many years. I abused it a lot. -- Maxine Kumin
Nothing is changed, except
there was a moment when
the wolf, the mongering wolf
who stands outside the self
lay lightly down, and slept. -- Maxine Kumin
God serves the choosy. They know what to want ... -- Maxine Kumin
What can an outsider know, except/the shell of things? -- Maxine Kumin
I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagistic poems. But I don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. I want to write poems that matter, that have an interesting point of view. -- Maxine Kumin
Love, we are a small pond. -- Maxine Kumin
When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old -- Maxine Kumin
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
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
Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going. -- Maxine Kumin
Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems. -- Maxine Kumin
So many poems you go into and come up empty. -- Maxine Kumin
Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do? -- Maxine Kumin
To build is to dwell. -- Maxine Kumin
I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them. -- Maxine Kumin
Nature is a catchment of sorrows. -- Maxine Kumin
The time on either side of now stands fast. -- Maxine Kumin
We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story. -- Maxine Kumin
Everything pays for growing tame. -- Maxine Kumin
Life will do anything for a living. -- Maxine Kumin
One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth. -- Maxine Kumin
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