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> [Meanwhile let us cast one shadow in air and water.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maxine-kumin/meanwhile-let-us-cast-one-shadow-in-air-and-water/)

[Maxine Kumin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maxine-kumin/)

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## More by Maxine Kumin

> [Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maxine-kumin/poetry-makes-nothing-happen-it-survives-in-the-valley-of-its-saying/)

[Maxine Kumin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maxine-kumin/there-is-an-extraordinary-degree-of-amity-among-washington-poets-they/)

[Maxine Kumin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maxine-kumin/i-don-t-think-i-ve-ever-felt-terribly-comfortable-writing-about-my/)

[Maxine Kumin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maxine-kumin/)

> [The time on either side of now stands fast.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maxine-kumin/the-time-on-either-side-of-now-stands-fast/)

[Maxine Kumin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maxine-kumin/)

> [God serves the choosy. They know what to want.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maxine-kumin/god-serves-the-choosy-they-know-what-to-want/)

[Maxine Kumin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maxine-kumin/)

> [And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maxine-kumin/and-the-pond-s-stillness-nippled-as-if-by-rain-instead-is-pocked-with/)

[Maxine Kumin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maxine-kumin/)

> [Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maxine-kumin/women-are-not-supposed-to-have-uteruses-especially-in-poems/)

[Maxine Kumin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maxine-kumin/)

> [To build is to dwell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maxine-kumin/to-build-is-to-dwell/)

[Maxine Kumin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maxine-kumin/)

> [... people get confidential at midnight.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maxine-kumin/people-get-confidential-at-midnight/)

[Maxine Kumin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maxine-kumin/)

> [I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maxine-kumin/i-would-not-recommend-poetry-as-a-career-in-the-first-place-it-s/)

[Maxine Kumin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maxine-kumin/)

> [A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maxine-kumin/a-lot-of-people-use-the-dictionary-to-find-out-how-to-spell-words/)

[Maxine Kumin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maxine-kumin/)

> [So many poems you go into and come up empty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maxine-kumin/so-many-poems-you-go-into-and-come-up-empty/)

[Maxine Kumin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maxine-kumin/)

> [It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maxine-kumin/it-is-important-to-act-as-if-bearing-witness-matters/)

[Maxine Kumin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maxine-kumin/)

> [Everything pays for growing tame.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maxine-kumin/everything-pays-for-growing-tame/)

[Maxine Kumin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maxine-kumin/)

> [When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maxine-kumin/when-sleeping-beauty-wakes-up-she-is-almost-fifty-years-old/)

[Maxine Kumin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maxine-kumin/)

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